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Schneider Electric’ s role in HVAC innovation arises from its ability to connect power, controls and liquid cooling within a single infrastructure model. Its recent direct-to-chip guidance highlights cooling for GPUs and accelerators. Motivair by Schneider Electric’ s product range now includes the MCDU-70 Coolant Distribution Unit, a 2.5MW CDU aimed at high-density data centres and designed for scalable, reliable cooling at full flow performance.
Many operators are now retrofitting high-density halls rather than building entirely new facilities, so the ability to introduce liquid cooling without disrupting existing electrical and controls architectures is a significant differentiator.
Schneider Electric also treats thermal strategy as a deployment issue, not only a performance issue, with recent material focusing on time-to-revenue, operational efficiency and risk reduction across the installation lifecycle.
In that sense, the company’ s best practice lies in integration: it does not present liquid cooling as a standalone answer, but as part of a wider operating model for AI-ready data centres. datacentremagazine. com 97