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, partner case studies, 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
Update, 30 October 2026: Chillventa 2026 is over. Read what exhibitors told us at the stands in our post-show report, Chillventa 2026: What Exhibitors Said About Proving Efficiency in the Field. For the policy debate from the day before the show, see our CONGRESS report. Exhibitors arriving in Nuremberg on 13 to 15 October are
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
Enex Technologies Targets Tenfold Growth in Data Center Business by 2031
The Italian manufacturer is expanding natural refrigerant cooling and heat management technologies for digital infrastructure.
Garrett Motion to Supply Oil-Free Compressors for Data Center Cooling in Asia-Pacific
Production is slated for the second half of 2027, with the technology supporting compact systems and next-generation low-GWP refrigerants.
Vyoma.AI Breaks Ground on 52 MW Data Center with Liquid Cooling in India
The facility will use direct-to-chip cooling and renewable energy as L&T targets more than 250 MW of data center capacity across India.
AHRI Highlights Data Center Cooling and HVACR Certification in Korea and India
Agreements in Korea and technical awards in India underscored AHRI's focus on consistent HVACR performance standards.
KEYTER and TECNALIA Partner on Sustainable HVACR Technologies
Joint R&D will target high-temperature heat pumps, data center cooling and digitalized systems with higher efficiency and lower costs.
Chemours Introduces Faizeon Two-Phase Liquid Cooling Fluids for Data Centers
Third-party testing found Faizeon 200 kept a GPU up to 19°C cooler than a water-based fluid at about one-third the coolant flow.
UK Sets PUE 1.3 Target and Water Efficiency Expectations for Data Centers
The Covenant could boost demand for efficient chillers, dry cooling, closed-loop liquid cooling and heat-recovery systems.
Gradian Opens $60 Million Thermal Management Manufacturing Facility in Minnesota
The expansion adds assembly, fabrication and chiller testing capacity as Gradian targets a companywide workforce of about 1,000.
Daikin Introduces Coolant Distribution Unit for AI Data Center Cooling
The range delivers 400 kW to 2.5 MW per unit, with parallel operation and centralized monitoring through Daikin's expanded iDCM platform.
Hitachi Vantara Deploys Solid-State Thermal Storage Cooling in the Netherlands
The 240 kW PCM system uses 5–8 kW of electricity, freeing existing power capacity for AI and computing workloads.
Vertiv Introduces SmartIT Platform with Liquid Cooling for AI Data Centers
The factory-validated architecture scales from single- to multi-rack configurations while integrating power, cooling and monitoring.
Aligned Data Centers Launches Delta Cube 3.0 with 10% Cooling Gains
The redesigned system supports high-density and hybrid-cooled environments without added space or operational cooling water.