Cooling and HVAC
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Europe’s GPU deal still needs buildings and power
Microsoft will use part of Mistral’s expanding European GPU infrastructure under a multibillion-dollar agreement, although the campuses, electrical load, cooling systems, and delivery programme remain undisclosed.
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Dutch outage pulls power and cooling into one failure
A utility power failure in Google Cloud’s Dutch region developed into a cooling loss and protective workload shutdowns, disrupting bare-metal, VMware, and managed storage services for more than 12 hours.
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NFrance cools Toulouse without a drop
NFrance has completed a live cooling retrofit that it says cut cooling power by about 20%, removed operational water use, and protected hosted services throughout installation.
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The chip is becoming the cooling loop
TNO moves microfluidic cooling closer to AI chip heat sources.
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Liquid cooling starts to look like factory work
technotrans adds CDU capacity as liquid cooling reaches volume supply.
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Rear-door cooling pushes past 120kW
Supermicro has expanded its rear-door heat-exchanger range to 120kW, offering a retrofit route for increasingly dense AI and HPC racks.
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Picasso adds a denser AI core
The University of Málaga has secured €3.21 million to add Nvidia B200 accelerators and six petabytes of storage to its Picasso supercomputer.
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Granada rebuilds the room for AI
The University of Granada is preparing power, cooling, and technical space for two AI systems with a combined indicated value of €8.5 million.
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Mitsubishi buys into Europe’s cooling service gap
Mitsubishi Electric has acquired two Dutch HVAC groups, adding local installation and maintenance capacity to its European data centre cooling operation.
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Finland takes a 550MW AI bet
Pure DC has launched the first 110MW phase of a planned 550MW AI campus in Seinäjoki, with secured power, planning, and liquid-cooled modular design.