DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Rack Level, Dan Swinhoe, DCD
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Eaton to acquire COL Group
Industrial firm buys Italian switchgear maker for €810m
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Submer launches Corenix to offer modular data center infrastructure
New unit to provide custom modules for customers
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Bridge DC launches prefabricated data center power module
Container contains transformers, power distribution, UPS, and cooling infrastructure
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Electric truck startup pitches containerized data center on wheels
500kW module to come with 4MWh battery system for several hours of compute
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TeraWulf taps Schneider in $290 million infrastructure deal
Site using lithium-ion UPS and direct-to-chip liquid cooling
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Prime Group to deploy Edge compute at self-storage sites across US
Company lists dozens of potential storage locations for potential Edge use cases
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Legrand acquires Keydak in China and TES in UK
Industrial firm continues data center-related acquisition spree
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Google totals 1GW of demand-response capability in US data centers
Company able to reduce data center capacity in times of need in Arkansas, Minnesota, and Michigan
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Crestchic launches loadbank to test liquid-cooled data center infrastructure
New 600kW loadbank maintains temperature accuracy to ±0.5°C
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Generac acquires switchgear maker Enercon
Generator maker moves further into data center space
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Legrand acquires data center power firm Kratos Industries
Follows busy 2024 and 2025 for Legrand in data center space
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STT GDC launches direct-current data center testbed in Singapore
Company aims to roll out DC-power design across Singapore facilities and beyond
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ZincFive releases nickel-zinc battery cabinet for AI-centric UPS systems
Company says its batteries are better at handling spiky AI workloads than traditional UPS systems
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EticaAG launches in-rack immersion cooled battery systems for data centers
Company says lithium-ion systems can be deployed safely in data center white space
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Supermicro to offer full suite of data center infrastructure
Company to offer power and cooling as well as servers
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Nvidia prepares data center industry for 1MW racks and 800-volt DC power architectures
More than 20 companies announce partnerships with Nvidia in preparation of next wave of rack density jumps
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Vantage cuts Czechia cell tower energy use by 1GWh annually with on-site solar
More than 400 cell sites equipped with solar in Czech Republic
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Legrand acquires load bank provider Avtron
Company’s fifth data center buy in 2025, following five last year
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LG, SK partner for cooling and energy solutions for AI data centers
Companies look to combine expertise for new energy-as-a-service offering
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Schneider releases new reference designs for Nvidia’s GB300 NVL72
Announces pre-fab module in partnership with Compass
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How Meta achieves 120kW a rack in 20kW air-cooled data centers
Company details Catalina pod deployments at Hot Chips
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Vertiv buys automation platform WayLay.io
Power and cooling firm invests in AI-powered monitoring company
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Mitsubishi partners with Modius on DCIM
Companies to integrate Modius DCIM with MHI power and cooling products
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Thermon launches load bank testing machines for liquid cooled data centers
New load banks to test CDUs and other data center equipment
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Switch deploys new hybrid air and liquid cooling design, claims to offer up to 2MW per rack densities
Company also secures new debt funding
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Legrand acquires two more companies in data center push
Acquires Switzerland’s Amperio Project and Portugal’s Quitérios
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Endeavour to offer sodium batteries to data centers, deploys in Edged’s facilities
Company says sodium offers better responsiveness than Lithium
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Skeleton Technologies launches graphene-based supercapacitor power shelf
Company launches GrapheneGPU to level out GPU energy peaks