Cooling and HVAC
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Europe’s AI boom meets the water bill
Bluefield Research expects European data centre water infrastructure spending to reach €6.8bn by 2036.
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Flix gets a €1bn AI second life
Submer will turn a former chemicals site in Catalonia into a liquid-cooled AI data centre campus.
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Scaleway folds heat-reuse HPC into its cloud
Scaleway has acquired Qarnot, adding dedicated HPC and waste-heat-recovery capability to its European cloud and AI platform.
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Wrocław tests the heat beneath compute
Wrocław University of Science and Technology is exploring data centre heat reuse with Kogeneracja for the city’s district heating network.
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Fairwater noise claim reaches the cooling yard
Microsoft’s Wisconsin AI data centre faces a noise lawsuit, putting cooling fans and local impact into the planning-risk frame.
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RED changes gear as AI loads rise
RED Engineering Design has appointed Mark Smith as CEO as mission-critical design work becomes more demanding.
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Ecolab buys the cold plate layer
Ecolab has completed its $4.75bn CoolIT acquisition, adding direct liquid cooling hardware to its water and optimisation platform.
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Tonstad puts water on the ledger
GreenScale’s 300MW Norwegian campus gives measurable form to data centre sustainability, from WUE and heat export to backup fuel.
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Pau builds sovereignty by the rack
Pau is replacing ageing municipal IT with local hosting capacity.
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Hanau puts 180MW on the drawing board
Deerns is engineering Data4’s 180MW Hanau AI campus in Germany.