The new Plymouth facility, at Daikin Applied's headquarters, is expected to open in 2027 and will test new cooling systems.

COOLING PROTOCOL: Big Tech is pouring billions into new data centers, but the real innovation is happening in the mechanical room. November 27, 2025 The rapid expansion of the data center industry, ...

How the AI boom is quietly creating regional water crises and inflating consumers’ electricity bills. How the explosive ...

Data centers are subject to intense heat demands due to the complex workloads required to power artificial intelligence and other energy-hungry applications. While direct-to-chip cooling can help ...

To provide a framework for understanding data center water use, The Green Grid has established a practical metric—Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE), measured in liters per kilowatt-hour of IT load, and ...

DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Phononic, a global leader in solid state cooling technology, reveals the cooling solution for AI data centers that unthrottles AI performance while ...

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The rapid rise of artificial intelligence workloads is transforming data center design and construction, posing new challenges and opportunities for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing professionals.