Liquid cooling stories

AI-driven power demands will reshape 2026 data centre growth, spurring Nordic, Gulf and APAC hubs while straining UK skills.

Itochu, Castrol and Itochu Techno-Solutions join forces to roll out AI-ready liquid cooling for Japan’s power-hungry data centres.

Digital Realty and BW Digital have partnered to link Singapore and Batam with a high-speed submarine cable, boosting data centre connectivity and AI infrastructure growth.

Macquarie Data Centres has completed the structural phase of its AUD $350m IC3 Super West AI data centre in Sydney, opening in Q3 2026 with 47MW capacity.

Next-gen data centres rely on advanced, modular cooling and proactive operations to manage rising demands and costly outages in digital infrastructure.

UK data centres face soaring demand from AI growth, driving urgent shifts to sustainable, resilient designs with advanced cooling and renewable power.

AI deployment faces delays as data centres struggle with power, cooling, and grid limits amid soaring GPU energy demands and supply bottlenecks.

Iceotope unveils KUL BOX, a compact liquid-cooled rack system enhancing AI edge computing in factories, hospitals and telecom sites lacking datacentre facilities.

BW Digital is building a 144MW AI-ready data centre and a subsea cable linking Batam and Singapore, boosting connectivity and sustainability in Southeast Asia.

Princeton Digital Group begins building a USD $1 billion, 120 MW hyperscale data centre in Jakarta to support growing AI and cloud demands in Indonesia.

AI's surge demands data centres to be redesigned with liquid cooling, high-density power, and sustainability for scalable, efficient infrastructure across Europe.

Intel has certified ExxonMobil's immersion cooling fluids for use with its 4th and 5th-gen Xeon processors, offering warranty-backed support for data centres.

Data centres face rising power and cooling demands as AI workloads push rack consumption to 300-600kW by 2030, requiring new infrastructure approaches.

El Capitan remains the world's fastest supercomputer, marking HPE's eighth consecutive top spot on the TOP500 list in high-performance computing.

Australia's AI growth is threatened by soaring data centre energy use, risking grid strain and emissions targets unless smarter networks are adopted.

Submer appoints Jean-Marc Denis as Chief Product Officer to spearhead its global AI datacentre solutions and product strategy expansion.

Schneider Electric launches advanced liquid cooling solutions in New Zealand to meet rising AI data centre demands while enhancing energy efficiency and sustainability.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise unveils GX5000 supercomputers to advance AI research with enhanced computing, energy efficiency and high-speed networking.

ZutaCore and EGIL Wings launch a 15MW AI Vault using waterless cooling and renewable energy for eco-friendly, high-density data centres worldwide.

AI-driven investments will push annual data centre IT and facility spending to USD $1 trillion by 2030, up from USD $290 billion in 2024.