Data Centre Cooling
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Data centre cooling has become a refrigeration problem at industrial scale: rack densities that air alone cannot hold, liquid and immersion systems moving from pilots into production, and heat rejection that neighbouring buildings now want back. Refindustry follows what is actually being installed: daily news, case studies with the figures their owners reported, and the engineers designing these systems.
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Data Center Cooling: The Site Decides the System, the Operator Decides the Refrigerant
The first part of this series traced a chain of decisions from public data and disclosed projects: what a site can supply in power, water, and demand for waste heat sets the cooling architecture, and the architecture narrows the refrigerant. This part puts that chain to six people who build and supply the equipment. The
Chillventa 2026 Preview: Key Technologies Ahead of the October Show
Exhibitors arriving in Nuremberg on 13 to 15 October are no longer arguing about whether to move to natural refrigerants. They are showing how fast the move can be made, and at what cost. That single change of question runs through nearly every release we have received ahead of Chillventa 2026, the largest edition of
Power, Water, and Heat: How Site Resources Now Decide the Refrigerant in a Data Center
For an engineer reading a data center brief in 2026, the first constraint is rarely the heat load. It is whether the site has the electricity, the water, and a use for the rejected heat to run a given cooling scheme at all. The cooling technology, and with it the refrigerant, follows from what the
News on Data Centres
BAC Launches Trillium TRFS Adiabatic Cooler for Large Data Centers
Patented controls balance water and energy use while supporting high-density chip cooling and multiple system configurations.
SKF to Unveil MBx Magnetic Bearings for Oil-Free Data Center Chillers
The modular series is designed to shorten lead times and boost motor capacity as data centers drive demand for efficient cooling.
Midea Introduces Cooling Technologies for High-Density AI Data Centers
The integrated portfolio targets PUE below 1.2, cuts equipment footprint by up to 70% and supports water-scarce, high-density sites.
LiquidStack launches CDU 2.X for high-density AI liquid cooling
The platform provides up to 2.5 MW of cooling with configurable power, controls and redundancy for AI data centers.
Vertiv expands critical infrastructure distribution across Southern Africa
Pinnacle ICT will offer technical, logistics and channel support for Vertiv solutions serving data centres and other critical sectors.
STULZ outlines end-to-end liquid cooling for AI data centers
The paper details six coordinated infrastructure levels, transient-load planning and PLC-based CDU control for high-density installations.
LG signs North American AI data center chiller supply agreement
The multi-year program will support projects exceeding 5 GW with air-cooled centrifugal chillers featuring refrigerant free-cooling.
MagPro launches 1.85 MW AeroLev chiller for AI data centers
Cooling-tower-free architecture, oil-free magnetic bearings and modular design target water-scarce, high-ambient sites.
Eliwell and Schneider Electric to showcase connected cooling at Chillventa
The companies will highlight controls, cloud monitoring, leak detection and energy optimization for refrigeration, HVAC and data centers.
Mitsubishi Electric Releases Chip-to-Grid AI Data Center Designs
The architecture integrates AC and 800VDC distribution, on-site generation, battery storage and dual-loop cooling for high-density AI loads.
Carrier Japan launches AquaForce 30XFZ chiller for data centers
The unit combines integrated free cooling with restart in as little as 120 seconds to support efficiency and business continuity.
Modine completes Performance Technologies spin-off and Gentherm combination
The company will focus on data center cooling, commercial HVAC and refrigeration, with shareholders set to vote on the Modexus Solutions name.