Cooling and HVAC
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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.
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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.