Cooling and HVAC
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Nscale’s Glomfjord expansion faces reported six-month delay
Nscale’s Glomfjord data centre is reportedly six months behind schedule after cooling leaks, construction problems and an electrical fire. Investigators’ account of operating capacity differs from Nscale’s own published figures.
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Swedish study measures cooling and server energy
Researchers used more than 2.6 million measurements from an Ericsson data centre room to allocate electricity and cooling consumption across individual processes, finding that two functions dominated its energy use.
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DCX adds automated coolant treatment to large CDUs
Polish cooling manufacturer DCX has incorporated coolant quality monitoring and automatic chemical dosing into its facility-scale distribution units, with claimed thermal capacities of 5–8MW.
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3C and Datalec merge data centre operations
3C has merged with London-based Datalec to create a larger data centre engineering and liquid cooling services group. The combined company forecasts more than $400 million in 2026 revenue and plans new facilities.
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Kioxia adds liquid cooling to enterprise SSDs
Kioxia has introduced cold-plate-compatible CM9 E3.S enterprise SSD models for liquid-cooled server designs. Select customers are receiving samples; general deployment remains unconfirmed.
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nVent develops rear-door cooling for AMD Helios
nVent is developing a DC-powered rear-door heat exchanger for AMD’s Helios compute racks. The cooling design targets exhaust heat left after direct-to-chip cooling; independently measured deployment results have not been released.
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Danfoss opens Polish thermal infrastructure manufacturing plant
Danfoss has opened a 22,500 sq m plant in Tuchom, Poland, bringing manufacturing and testing of thermal interface equipment together with a data centre competence centre.
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Shell coolant gains NVIDIA DSX Ready qualification
Shell says its PG25 direct liquid cooling fluid has received NVIDIA DSX Ready Coolant qualification, adding another validation point for coolant chemistry used in high-density AI infrastructure.
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Valeo validates aluminium data centre cooling with OVHcloud
Valeo says validation with OVHcloud shows its aluminium heat exchanger can increase cooling capacity while reducing fan electricity consumption compared with traditional copper designs, alongside accelerated corrosion testing.
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LG secures 5GW North American cooling agreement
LG Electronics has signed a multi-year agreement with AIR Control Concepts to supply chillers for North American AI data centre projects representing more than 5GW of capacity.