Daikin Holdings Singapore has signed a memorandum of understanding with Delta Electronics to work on data centre cooling solutions that can be deployed across the ASEAN‑Oceania region.
The two companies will collaborate on next‑generation Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU) technologies for AI and High‑Performance Computing (HPC) data centres.
The collaboration is expected to deliver a full-stack cooling solution, covering everything from building infrastructure to chips and servers.
Daikin says it brings its expertise in facility‑level cooling and thermal management in data centre grey-space cooling, which refers to the thermal management of the building’s infrastructure zones including critical support equipment rather than the actual computers, to this deal.
Delta, meanwhile, enters this agreement with its expertise in white space cooling, which is the thermal management of specific areas in a data centre where active IT equipment such as chips, servers, storage and networking hardware is housed. The company has advanced expertise in server‑side liquid cooling and CDU technologies.
Together, the companies aim to deliver an integrated, end‑to‑end data centre cooling ecosystem capable of supporting rack power densities ranging from 100kW to 3000kW, featuring Delta Fans and Thermal Business Group’s extensive In-Rack and In-Row CDU portfolios, including the latest highly scalable and modular stack-up CDU series.
“This collaboration is not about what has already been achieved but about what we will build together through speed, integration and disciplined execution,” Delta Electronics executive vice president of Global Business Operations Jimmy Yiin said.
Last year, Daikin Industries acquired Dynamic Data Centers Solutions (DDC Solutions), a San Diego-based company in the US specialising in cooling systems for AI data centres. DDC Solution’s cooling technologies include server rack-level individual air conditioning. Daikin said that it would integrate DDC Solutions’ individual server cooling technologies into Daikin Applied Americas’ existing portfolio of large-scale commercial air-conditioning equipment, instrumentation and controls.
Here in Australia, the company opened a $28.6 million local manufacturing facility in Chipping Norton, NSW, towards the end of last year.
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