Cooling technology • Technology
A liquid loop moves heat from processor-mounted cold plates to a CDU and then to facility heat rejection.
Architecture
Direct-to-chip cooling places a cold plate on high-heat components such as GPUs and CPUs. A technology cooling system circulates water or water-glycol through the rack, while a CDU provides isolation, flow control, filtration, and heat exchange with the facility loop.
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A direct-liquid-cooling specialist supplying cold plates, coolant distribution units, manifolds, controls, and deployment services.
A global critical-infrastructure supplier spanning thermal management, liquid cooling, power, controls, and prefabricated systems for data centers.
A thermal-management specialist focused on liquid cooling for supercomputing, HPC, and accelerated-computing facilities.
A liquid-cooling platform company offering direct-to-chip distribution systems, modular CDUs, and immersion solutions for AI infrastructure.
An energy-management and automation group with an expanding chip-to-chiller portfolio for high-density and AI data centers.
A microconvective liquid-cooling company developing cold-plate and system-level solutions for dense processors and compute platforms.
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Processor-mounted heat exchangers that move GPU, CPU, memory, or power-electronics heat into a liquid loop.
CDUs control flow, pressure, temperature, water quality, and heat exchange between facility and technology cooling loops.
Rack and row headers distribute coolant between CDUs and individual servers or cold plates.
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Submer announced a 56 MW owned and operated liquid-cooled data center in Barcelona as a showcase for its facility platform.
The Government of Madhya Pradesh and Submer signed an MoU covering up to 1 GW of liquid-cooled, AI-ready data-center capacity.
An undisclosed U.S. data-center operator ordered 300 MW of LiquidStack CDU-1MW capacity for multiple AI-ready sites.
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Direct-to-chip cooling places a cold plate on high-heat components such as GPUs and CPUs. A technology cooling system circulates water or water-glycol through the rack, while a CDU provides isolation, flow control, filtration, and heat exchange with the facility loop.
Direct-to-chip liquid cooling is classified as scaling technology. Commonly selected for 50–150+ kW AI racks.
Targets the largest heat sources directly; Retains familiar rack and server service models; Can support warm-water operation and heat reuse.