Johnson Controls has launched a new cooling distribution unit (CDU) for liquid-cooled data centers.

The company this week announced an expansion its data center thermal management offerings with the launch of its Silent-Aire CDU platform.

The Silent-Aire CDUs offer a wide range of scalable cooling capacities from 500kW to more than 10MW in flexible designs to suit the needs of the data center deployment.

“The launch of this expanded series of CDU technology marks a pivotal step in our commitment to advance data center cooling, from chip to chiller,” said Austin Domenici, vice president and general manager, data center solutions at Johnson Controls. “By collaborating with leading ecosystem players in the hyperscale, colocation, and semiconductor industry, we’ve engineered an innovative and scalable platform that meets the demands of next-generation AI training and inference hardware, delivering consistent performance and reinforcing our role as a strategic partner to data center professionals scaling for the digital economy.”

Each unit can provide 1.05MW of cooling capacity (using 25 percent propylene glycol) with a 9.4°F (5.2°C) approach temperature or 1.4MW using a water design with a 6.3°F (3.5°C) approach temperature.

Johnson said the CDUs can be positioned either within the rack row, adjacent to heat-generating equipment, or in the whitespace perimeter.

Johnson Controls manufactures the Silent-Aire CDUs at facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Johnson Controls provides and deploys data center solutions across more than 150 countries. Founded in 1994 in Canada, Silent-Aire launched its first data center air cooling unit in 2004. It was acquired by Johnson in 2021.