Cooling and HVAC
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Molex backs CAEPlus active liquid cooling
Molex has invested in CAEPlus to develop and commercialise an active liquid-cooling architecture designed for increasingly hot AI processors.
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Madison Air agrees $5.4bn ebm-papst acquisition
Madison Air has agreed to acquire German airflow specialist ebm-papst, bringing a major data centre cooling supplier into its air-quality portfolio.
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Schwarz links Lübbenau data centre to heat network
Schwarz Digits will feed waste heat from its 200MW Lübbenau data centre into the local district-heating network from 2028.
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Echelon and Trinovium develop liquid cooling systems
Echelon Data Centres and Trinovium will develop direct-to-chip cooling fluids, monitoring systems, and modular thermal technology as high-density AI infrastructure puts coolant stability and reliability under greater scrutiny.
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Trane and Eaton integrate AI power and cooling
Trane Technologies and Eaton have combined medium-voltage electrical and thermal architectures into an Nvidia-aligned AI data centre reference design, with claimed efficiency gains and lower installation costs and copper use than conventional low-voltage approaches.
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Amsterdam Equinix plan faces water scrutiny
A four-tower Equinix development in Amsterdam-Zuidoost could use 1.1bn litres of drinking water annually at full build-out, placing its proposed cooling system above a voluntary Dutch industry water-efficiency benchmark.
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Drought puts data centre water connections under strain
Water constraints are reaching proposed data centre developments in southern England as drought forces utilities to examine large new connection requests against an already stressed supply system.
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Heatwave turns cooling into a grid load
Extreme heat can lift data centre cooling demand by 20–30%, adding electrical load as drought, high temperatures, and constrained generation place pressure on power systems across Europe.
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InfraPartners puts AI control into prefabricated facilities
InfraPartners and Phaidra are integrating AI-based facility controls into prefabricated high-density data-centre systems, targeting cooling efficiency and operational complexity at scale.
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Chemours launches low-GWP data centre refrigerants
Chemours has added lower-GWP refrigerants for data centre chiller applications.