Daikin Applied's DDC Solutions Opens Live AI Cooling Showcase in Operating Data Center
Why It Matters
- The live showcase demonstrates the growing role of HVAC manufacturers in data center cooling, one of the industry's fastest-growing markets.
- Integrated facility and rack-level cooling strategies are becoming increasingly important as artificial intelligence workloads drive higher heat loads.
- The news highlights opportunities for contractors involved in mission-critical cooling, chiller systems, and advanced thermal management, while showing how training and education are becoming important as cooling requirements evolve for high-density computing environments.
SAN DIEGO — DDC Solutions, part of the Daikin Applied group, has opened an Artificial Intelligence Cooling Showcase at the ScaleMatrix data center in San Diego, where customers can observe an integrated cooling system operating under live, high-density GPU workloads.
According to DDC Solutions, the facility combines Daikin Applied's facility-level chiller infrastructure, DDC Solutions' rack containment and airside thermal management, and Chilldyne's direct-to-chip liquid cooling technologies into a single operating environment.
Unlike a demonstration system, the showcase operates under active customer workloads. Cirrascale Cloud Services runs live artificial intelligence applications on the infrastructure, allowing visitors to evaluate cooling performance under real operating conditions.
The integrated system is designed to address thermal management from the facility level to individual processors. Daikin Applied provides chiller infrastructure for the facility, while DDC Solutions manages rack containment, airside thermal management, fire suppression, and data center infrastructure management monitoring. Chilldyne's direct-to-chip liquid cooling captures heat generated by graphics processing units.
According to the company, the hybrid architecture is intended to manage both processor heat through liquid cooling and the remaining heat generated by power distribution, networking equipment, storage, and other rack components through airside cooling.
The showcase also demonstrates multiple layers of equipment protection, including sealed rack containment, integrated rack-level fire suppression, negative-pressure liquid cooling, and facility-level cooling infrastructure.
In addition to facility tours, DDC Solutions is offering onsite training for scheduled visitors. The program covers hybrid cooling architecture, failure mode analysis, asset protection strategies, and infrastructure planning for high-density graphics processing unit deployments.
The Artificial Intelligence Cooling Showcase is open for scheduled visits by qualified customers, partners, and prospects. According to DDC Solutions, visits include a facility walkthrough, observation of live workloads, and an overview of the integrated cooling architecture.