DESIGN & BUILD
HVAC innovations are moving from backof-house efficiency measures to core design choices for data centres built around AI, HPC and denser hybrid estates. The latest reference designs and product launches point to a market that is now organising itself around thermal chains rather than isolated components, with cooling architecture treated as a system that spans chillers, controls, distribution, racks and workload patterns.
Johnson Controls’ new AI Factory reference design series, for example, is framed around water-cooled, aircooled and absorption chiller use cases.
Vertiv’ s expanded liquid-cooling portfolio in EMEA shows that the operational focus is shifting from concept to deployable product sets for high-density rooms.
Schneider Electric’ s recent liquidcooling guidance stresses an end-to-end approach across sourcing, installation and maintenance.
Integrating mixed architectures and bifurcated loops The key trend is not a single cooling technology but the rise of mixed
88 July 2026