Companies show off Google-inspired Project Deschutes CDUs

A number of data center cooling firms revealed new cooling distribution units (CDU) inspired by Google at the Open Compute Summit in California this week.

Earlier this year, Google detailed the latest generation of its in-house CDU design, codenamed Project Deschutes, which it aims to use in high-density racks.

Google has since released the design and specs of the CDU to the OCP community, and several cooling firms have developed cooling systems built to the search giant’s specifications.

Boyd was one firm exhibiting a Project Deschutes CDU at the summit this week. The company said the new CDU features up to 2MW of cooling at a 3°C (37.4°F) approach temperature difference (ATD), in addition to 80 PSI available pressure to enable advanced cold plate designs to cool future high-power AI processors.

Data center observer Rich Miller noted that CoolerMaster was also showing off a Deschutes-compliant CDU at OCP this week. ConvergeDigest also noted, Envicool and Nidec were at the event with Deschutes CDUs.

Vertiv’s CoolChip CDU is also built to Google's Project Deschutes 5th-generation OCP specification. Delta, nVent, and Stulz have also developed Deschutes-compliant CDUs.

But the CDU isn’t the only aspect of the data center Google wants to collaborate with industry on, saying it wants to develop “industry-standard cooling interfaces, new components like rear-door-heat exchangers, reliability, etc.”

New in-row CDU offers 250kW of two-phase direct-to-chip cooling

Accelsius, a two-phase, direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology, has a new coolant distribution unit (CDU) available.

The company this week announced the general availability of the NeuCool MR250, the company’s first row-based CDU.

The MR250 delivers 250kW of liquid cooling capacity per rack in flexible configurations (1 x 250 kW or 2 x 125 kW/rack).

The system supports facility water temperatures up to 45°C (113°F) and is compatible with R1233zd(E) or R-515B refrigerants.

Select deployments of the MR250 began late in Q3, with broader rollouts continuing through Q4 and into 2026.

Accelsius said the new CDU is the first in a planned series of "increasingly powerful NeuCool multi-rack solutions," with higher-capacity systems scheduled for release in 2026.

Accelsius has deployed its technology at several data center labs, and recently posted on LinkedIn that its NeuCool Thermal Simulation Rack is headed to London for deployment at Telehouse's new Liquid Cooling Lab. It has also deployed a cooling system to an Equinix lab in Virginia and at Park Place Technologies' new facility in Cleveland, Ohio.

OVH launches new server racks and cooling systems for its data centers

European cloud and data center firm OVHcloud has announced a new cooling architecture for its data centers.

The company said the OVHcloud Smart Datacenter combines new industrial designs with AI features, reducing both power and water consumption, adding that the new approach can reduce water consumption by up to 30 percent and cooling electricity consumption by up to 50 percent.

In development for the past two years, the fifth generation of the OVHcloud server rack has been redesigned with a new server layout where clusters of servers are connected in serial when it comes to their cooling, with servers for each cluster still organized in parallel for maintenance.

Hardware components, such as CPUs and GPUs, are cooled through direct-to-chip waterblocks designed by OVHcloud, dissipating heat through a closed-loop water circuit that extends to a single cooling loop across the whole data center.

The new cooling distribution units (CDUs) are 50 percent smaller than previous generations and located outside the rack. It can cool down several rows of racks and features more than 30 sensors that monitor elements from the racks, including pressure, speed, and water temperature, and can adjust cooling settings in real time.

New OVHcloud Smart Racks are currently being deployed at the Roubaix data center in France, in a room filled with nearly 60 racks and 2,000 servers alongside the new cooling system. The entire system is expected to be rolled out across the group's data centers.

Nvidia prepares data center industry for 1MW racks and 800-volt DC power architectures

Nvidia has announced more than a dozen partners as it looks to prepare the data center industry for 800-volt DC power architectures and rack densities of 1MW.

The GPU giant this week said it would unveil specs of the Vera Rubin NVL144 MGX-generation open architecture rack servers.

The company is also set to detail ecosystem support for Nvidia’s Kyber system, which connects 576 Rubin Ultra GPUs, built to support increasing inference demands.

Around 20 industry partners are showcasing new silicon, components, power systems, and support for the company’s latest 800-volt direct current (VDC) rack systems and power architectures that will support the Kyber rack architecture.

CoreWeave, Lambda, Nebius, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Together AI are among the companies designing for 800-volt data centers. Nvidia noted that Foxconn’s 40MW Kaohsiung-1 data center in Taiwan is also using 800VDC.

Nvidia added that the new Vera Rubin NVL144 rack design features 45°C (113°F) liquid cooling, a new liquid-cooled busbar for higher performance, and 20x more energy storage to keep power steady. A central printed circuit board midplane replaces traditional cable-based connections for faster assembly and serviceability

Kyber - the successor to Nvidia Oberon - will house 576 Rubin Ultra GPUs by 2027. The system features 18 compute blades rotated vertically, “like books on a shelf.”

Supermicro to offer full suite of data center infrastructure

Server maker Supermicro has moved into the full data center service space.

The company this week announced the availability of its Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS), a new business line for organizations to design, order, and build complete data centers from a single vendor.

The service provides a “complete data center IT infrastructure” offering, including servers, storage, management software, liquid cooling infrastructure, networking, and electrical components—tested and integrated in Supermicro's manufacturing facilities before shipment to the customer.

DCBBS’ offerings include servers and chips, storage, liquid cooling cold plates; in-rack coolant distribution manifolds (CDMs), coolant distribution units (CDUs), read door heat exchangers, power shelves, battery backup unit shelves (BBU); in-rack CDUs and liquid-to-air (L2A) sidecars; dry coolers, water cooling towers, generators, and transformers.

XDS to build liquid-cooled data center at Pakistan tech park

UAE-based data center operator XDS has signed an agreement with a tech park in Pakistan for a liquid-cooled data center.

Located in the southeastern Pakistani province of Sindh, the Al Nahal IT Park will contain what XDS claims to be Pakistan’s first liquid-cooled facility.

The tech park’s website also states that the facility will be Pakistan’s “first sovereign, ESG-compliant Tier III+ modular data centers.”

The agreement was signed at GITEX Global, a tech expo held in Dubai.

Details about the facility’s development timeline and its capacity were not disclosed.

XDS specializes in modular, liquid-cooled facilities. The company has signed data center deals with Saudi Arabia and the UAE in the past three months, but it does not currently operate a data center.

Pakistan is making attempts to grow its relatively small data center market.

Meta breaks ground on 1GW data center campus in El Paso, Texas

Social media giant Meta has broken ground on a new data center in El Paso, Texas.

News that Meta was targeting a site in El Paso surfaced in late 2023, with the company operating behind the WurldWide LLC affiliate to acquire more than 1,000 acres of land in the northeast of the city.

Some $1.5 billion is set to be invested in the first phase of development. Previous reports suggest there could be up to five phases of development, each totaling around 800,000 sq ft (74,320 sqm).

The site has been designed to support “both the traditional servers of today and future generations of AI-enabled hardware,” and will use a closed-loop, liquid-cooled system that will use zero water for the “majority of the year.”

The land, north of Stan Roberts Sr. Ave. and west of US Highway 54, was previously acquired by the city from the El Paso Public Service Board more than a decade ago. It was originally set aside as a possible site for an automotive manufacturing project that never materialized. There was more talk of a potential manufacturing user for the site around 2019, but nothing came to fruition.

El Paso, located in the west of Texas and close to the borders of Mexico and New Mexico, is not traditionally a major data center hub. Dallas, Austin, and sometimes Houston, all to the east of El Paso, are more popular with data center developers in Texas. Phoenix in Arizona, to the west of El Paso, is also a large data center market.

Bridge DC secures 'sustainable' water supply for upcoming data center campus in Chonburi, Thailand

APAC data center developer Bridge Data Centres (BDC) has signed an industrial water purchase agreement with Thai utility Eastwater Stecon Utilities Co (EWS) for ‘sustainable’ water supply for its under-construction hyperscale data center campus in Chonburi Province, Thailand.

The deal, which will last for ten years, commencing in May 2026, will see the utility provide BDC with industrial water to support operations at the data center.

BDC broke ground on the QH101 facility in July of this year. Located to the south of the capital, Bangkok, in the Khlong Tamru Subdistrict within Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor, the project spans approximately 16 hectares. At full build-out, the facility is expected to offer up to 200MW of capacity, and will represent a total investment of roughly $1.2bn.

BDC has signed several agreements with water utilities across APAC to utilize treated wastewater for its cooling. In August, it signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Johor Special Water for the use of wastewater across its data center operations in Johor, Malaysia.

In Thailand, Bridge DC owns one operational data center in Bangkok, which it acquired in 2022.

Humain signs connectivity deal with Saudi's Center3

Saudi AI company Humain has struck a connectivity deal with local data center and infrastructure firm Center3.

Announced this week, the partnership will deliver "advanced connectivity services" to enable Humain’s mission to position the Kingdom as a global hub for AI.

Tareq Amin, CEO of Humain, said: “Connectivity is fundamental to any world-class AI ecosystem. Our partnership with center3 ensures that Humain has the secure, high-capacity infrastructure needed to scale AI across every sector of the Kingdom. This agreement brings us one step closer to realizing Saudi Arabia’s ambition of becoming a global leader in AI.”

Humain is an AI venture established in May 2025 as a subsidiary of the country's Public Investment Fund (PIF) with the aim of delivering 6.6GW of data center capacity over the next decade. The company is developing its own data centers as well as using capacity from other operators to host thousands of Nvidia GPUs.

Center3 is a subsidiary of Saudi Telecom, formed in 2022. It has some 20 data centers in development and operation in and around the Kingdom, as well as in Bahrain. The company aims to reach 300MW of total installed capacity by 2027 and 1GW of capacity by 2030. Oracle and Huawei are known customers of Center3 facilities. It also owns or has capacity on some 16 subsea cables.

CyrusOne eyes 600MW data center campus in Illinois

US data center firm CyrusOne is looking to develop a new campus in southern Illinois.

As reported by the Illinois Times, CyrusOne has filed a request for a conditional permitted use in an agricultural zone at the northwest corner of Thayer and Clark roads in Talkington Township, 14 miles southwest of Springfield.

The company aims to develop a $500 million campus on 280 acres in Sangamon County, some 80 miles north of St. Louis, Missouri. The site is close to Swift Current Energy’s $800 million Double Black Diamond solar farm, which launched earlier this year.

The 600MW development could total six 250,000 sq ft (23,226 sqm) buildings. Construction could start next year, with the first phase launching in 2027. The site will reportedly feature closed-loop air cooling systems.

The application will be considered by the Sangamon County zoning board of appeals on November 20 and by the county board on December 9.

Ryan McCrady, president and chief executive officer of the Springfield Sangamon Growth Alliance, added: “This is very good news for our area, especially when you think about what it will mean for the assessed value across the entire county.”

CyrusOne is owned by private equity firm KKR and operates more than 50 data centers across the US and Europe. The company has a number of data centers in Illinois around Chicago, in the Aurora (CHI1-3) and Lombard (CHI5) areas of the city.

Major AWS outage brings down much of the web

Amazon Web Services is suffering a major outage, primarily impacting users in North America.

With the world's largest cloud service having issues, so are the many websites and platforms that use it.

Among those affected are Perplexity, Snapchat, Fortnite, Airtable, Canva, Amazon, Slack, Signal, PlayStation, Clash Royale, Brawl Stars, Epic Games Store, and the Ring Cameras.

"This issue also affects other AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region as well. During this time, customers may be unable to create or update Support Cases. Engineers were immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause."

The DynamoDB problem has impacted other AWS services, including AWS Global Accelerator, AWS VPCE PrivateLink, AWS Security Token Service, AWS Step Functions, AWS Systems Manager, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, Amazon GameLift Servers, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon SageMaker, and Amazon VPC Lattice.

Update at 3:03AM PDT: AWS said in a status update: "We continue to observe recovery across most of the affected AWS Services. We can confirm global services and features that rely on US-EAST-1 have also recovered. We continue to work towards full resolution and will provide updates as we have more information to share."