Imperial College London Chooses Intel Xeon 6 for £10M Lenovo Supercomputer

Intel announced plans this week for the new HX2 supercomputer at Imperial College London built on Lenovo servers and powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors with Performance-cores (P-cores). The water-cooled HX2 system, scheduled for deployment later this year, will be part of Imperial College London’s Research Computing Service. Residing in a co-location data center in […]

LiquidStack Unveils GigaModular Coolant Distribution Unit

CANNES, France, June 3, 2025 — LiquidStack today at Datacloud Global Congress unveiled its GigaModular CDU — a modular, scalable Coolant Distribution Unit with up to 10MW cooling capacity, made possible through the unit’s modular platform and pay-as-you-grow installation approach. Driven by increases in the adoption of AI, cloud computing, and other data-intensive technologies, the global […]

Supermicro Announces DLC-2 Direct Liquid Cooling Updates

SAN JOSE, May 14, 2025 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. announced updates for to its Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC) solution that incorporate new technologies for cooling various server components, accommodate warmer liquid inflow temperatures, and introduce mechanical designs for more AI per watt. The company said its DLC-2 solution reduces data center power consumption by up […]

Korea’s KISTI Selects HPE for 600PFLOPS Supercomputer

The new supercomputer will feature a fanless direct liquid cooling system architecture for efficiency, sustainability, and density. It is expected to reach a theoretical peak performance of 600 petaflops, more than half an exaflop.

Liquid Cooling: CoolIT Systems Announces Row-Based Coolant Distribution Unit

Calgary, AB, April 15, 2025 — AI ad HPC liquid cooling company CoolIT Systems today introduced the CHx2000, which the company said is the highest-performance row-based coolant distribution unit (CDU). This follows CoolIT’s announcement of the CHx1500 CDU in early March 2025. In production and shipping from CoolIT’s multi-gigawatt capacity manufacturing facilities, CHx2000 offers a […]

Google Launches ‘Ironwood’ 7th Gen TPU

Google Cloud today introduced its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit, “Ironwood,” which the company said is it most performant and scalable custom AI accelerator and the first designed specifically for inference. Ironwood scales up to 9,216 liquid cooled chips linked via Inter-Chip Interconnect ….

Gates Announces Large-Diameter Hose for Data Center Cooling

DENVER, March 28, 2025—Gates (NYSE: GTES), a manufacturer of power transmission and fluid power solutions, today announced the launch of Data Master MegaFlex, a large-diameter data center cooling hose that joins the Data Master small-diameter hose, launched in 2024. The Data Master MegaFlex unlocks new opportunities within data centers and will enable Gates to serve a […]

LiquidStack Opens Second Manufacturing Facility in Texas

CARROLLTON, Texas, March 25, 2025 — Data center liquid cooling company LiquidStack today announced that it has opened a second manufacturing facility in Carrollton, Texas. Located two blocks from LiquidStack’s headquarters and manufacturing site in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the new 17,000 square foot facility will increase the company’s production capacity, while serving as a […]

CoolIT Announces 4000W Liquid Cooling Coldplate

Calgary, AB, March 13, 2025— Liquid cooling company CoolIT Systems announced a 4000W-ready single-phase direct liquid cooling (DLC) coldplate – which the company said more than doubles the previously accepted limits of single-phase direct liquid cooling. “CoolIT continues to lead the industry in performance.  We are thrilled to show silicon leaders that single-phase DLC will continue […]

Vertiv Introduces Heat Rejection System for Hybrid Liquid and Air Cooling for AI and HPC

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a provider of digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, today made an addition to its thermal management portfolio, with the introduction of the Vertiv CoolLoop Trim Cooler, in support of air and liquid cooling applications for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. This solution supports diverse climate conditions for hybrid-cooled or […]