Cooling and HVAC
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Dawn outage turns heat into compute risk
Cambridge’s Dawn supercomputer outage shows how extreme heat can turn cooling infrastructure into compute risk.
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Grevenbroich enters Microsoft’s German grid
Microsoft has signed a conditional land deal for another cloud and AI data centre site in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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NTT tries to factory-build hyperscale
NTT Facilities says its Hyper Ready Module approach could sharply reduce delivery times for large hyperscale data centres.
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Cooling chemistry enters the rack
Wacker has launched a silicon-based dielectric fluid as immersion cooling moves closer to mainstream AI data centre design.
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Nebius plugs Madrid into the AI race
Nebius has reportedly taken 18MW at Madrid-Getafe, adding AI demand to Iberia’s power-led data centre expansion.
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AWS cuts water through the row
AWS says in-row heat exchange can reduce water use against evaporative air-cooled data centre designs.
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Equinix turns Milan heat into supply
Equinix and A2A plan to export up to 225GWh a year of data centre heat into Milan’s district heating network.
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Omen brings chemistry into uptime
Omen AI has raised $31m to expand real-time fluid monitoring for AI data centres.
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Google’s AI load strains the green story
Google’s latest environmental reporting shows electricity, water, and construction emissions rising with AI demand.
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A 150GW AI bet needs wires
Structure Research forecasts a steep rise in AI-focused data centre capacity by 2030.