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nVent’s innovative, scalable liquid-to-air solutions enable high-performance liquid cooling systems

nVent is pleased to announce its row-based liquid-to-air (LTA) heat rejection unit as a standard offering supporting high-performance cooling solutions with greater efficiency.
nVent’s LTA solution is being used for demonstration as part of a Lenovo AI-ready system, engineered to bring the Nvidia Blackwell platform to the enterprise market and is being showcased at SC24.
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nVent collaborates with Nvidia on AI-ready liquid cooling solutions

nVent Electric plc (“nVent”), a global leader in electrical connection and protection solutions, announced that it is collaborating with Nvidia to deploy liquid cooling solutions at scale supporting the Nvidia GB200 NVL72 and next-generation platforms.
nVent is contributing to active development programs with hyperscale and high-performance computing (HPC) customers, delivering customized liquid cooling solutions that support Nvidia NVL36 and NVL72 deployments.
nVent’s world-class engineering hubs, on-site labs, and production facilities have produced liquid cooling technology that is tested and customized to support Nvidia platforms, enabling customers to deploy and scale next-generation AI technology.
nVent has also collaborated with Nvidia to deliver solutions for the Open Compute Project (OCP) community. OCP brings scale and velocity to the fast-growing data center industry through open-source design concepts for data centers.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a series of new data center components to make its data centers better equipped to handle the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Announced at AWS re:Invent this week, the innovations cover power, cooling, and hardware design and aim to improve the energy efficiency of AWS' facilities.
AWS has simplified its electrical and mechanical designs to make its data centers easier to maintain and increase reliability.
With new AI servers currently requiring as much as 850W per chip, and expected to soon reach 1kW each, liquid cooling is now a necessity. AWS has developed a "novel mechanical cooling solution" using direct-to-chip cooling in its new and existing data centers.
AWS has also made efforts to improve sustainability across its data centers.The cloud company said that its new cooling system will reduce mechanical energy consumption by as much as 46 percent during peak cooling conditions without increasing water usage on a per-MW basis.

Core Scientific plans to refurbish its data center in Denton, Texas, turning it from a crypto facility into an AI site.
Core Scientific plans to spend as much as $6.1 billion on the new campus, the Denton City Council said, with a planned launch in 2027.
As part of the deal, the City of Denton will lease 78.85 acres near the Denton Energy Center gas plant to Core Scientific for private use.
The Denton data center was Core Scientific's first Bitcoin mining facility in Texas, and opened three years ago.
The company said that it has contracted around 500MW of revenue-generating critical IT load for its AI/HPC hosting business.

Equinix has partnered with the National University of Singapore to establish a Co-Innovation Facility (CIF) to focus on sustainable solutions for the data center sector.
CIF will incorporate various technologies, including liquid cooling and cognitive digital twins, to test their viability in data centers.
Equinix has a robust data center portfolio in Singapore. Earlier this month, it broke ground on the SG6 data center, where the CIF will be located. Expected to open in Q1 2027, the nine-story facility will offer 20MW. It is one of the first facilities given the green light as part of a relaxation of a years-long moratorium on new data center capacity in the city-state.

Google has acquired land in Finland's Kajaani and Muhos for future data center development.
The €27 million ($28.5m) deal gives Google 1,400 hectares of land across four parcels. The land was acquired from the state-run forest agency Metsähallitus.
Kajaani is home to Lumi, Europe's most powerful supercomputer, as well as a government facility and a Borealis data center.
Google's new land parcels are not at this mill, but the company's current Finnish data center is built out of a converted paper mill in Hamina. There, the company takes advantage of existing infrastructure to use seawater for cooling.
Acquiring the land does not guarantee that the company will build a data center there - it has a history of banking land, sometimes reselling it in the future and developing elsewhere.

The US government has reduced the amount of funding Intel will receive under the CHIPS and Science Act to less than $8 billion.
In March 2024, Intel was preliminarily awarded $8.5 billion in direct funding, in addition to $11bn in low-interest rate loans and a 25 percent investment tax credit on up to $100 billion of Intel’s capital investments in Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio, and Oregon.
In October 2024, Intel posted a $16.6 billion loss in Q3 2024, the largest quarterly loss ever recorded by the chip maker, with $2.8bn related to its wide-sweeping job cuts.
That same month, the company paused plans to build new chip fabs in Germany and Poland and said it would decouple its Intel Foundry Services business unit.