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Frost & Sullivan: AI Pushing Cooling Up Data Centre Agenda

Datacentremagazine · · 632 words · By Ben Craske

The article discusses a whitepaper by Frost & Sullivan regarding the increasing importance of advanced cooling solutions in data centers due to the rise of AI workloads. It highlights the shift from traditional air-cooling to liquid cooling and the integration of thermal management into broader strategic and sustainability goals.

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9 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“a new Frost & Sullivan whitepaper... Strategic Cooling for the AI Era: How Data Centre Cooling Solutions Are Transforming Global Infrastructure”
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Multiple independent web search results (PRNewswire and other news outlets) explicitly name the whitepaper 'Strategic Cooling for the AI Era: How Data Centre Cooling Solutions Are Transforming Global Infrastructure' published by Frost & Sullivan.
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“operators are moving beyond traditional air-cooling approaches and adopting advanced thermal management systems to support higher-density infrastructure deployments”
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Multiple sources discuss the shift from air-cooling to advanced thermal management (liquid cooling) to handle the higher densities required by AI workloads.
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web search NEUTRAL — Types of Thermal Management Systems in Data Centers and Liquid Cooling. Liquid cooling can be achieved through different mechanisms with unique advantages associated with each technology.Improved over…
https://stellarix.com/insights/articles/liquid-cooling-the-n…
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web search NEUTRAL — Learn how high-density data centers manage power and cooling challenges, including AI workloads, thermal density, and infrastructure design strategies.
https://www.enerconpower.com/post/thermal-and-power-challeng…
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web search NEUTRAL — Air-Cooled Chillers: High Capacity, High Efficiency. Complementing its liquid offerings, Trane has also unveiled new air-cooled chillers that address the rising ambient temperature and density challen…
https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/cooling/article/55298248/…
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“The analysis highlights growing investment in liquid cooling architectures, higher capacity coolant distribution units (CDUs), direct-to-chip systems”
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Multiple sources confirm the role and increasing investment in Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs) and liquid cooling architectures to support high heat densities.
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web search NEUTRAL — Understand the role of coolant distribution unit (CDUs) for liquid cooling and its ability to support higher heat densities in the data center environment.
https://www.vertiv.com/en-emea/about/news-and-insights/artic…
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web search NEUTRAL — Cooling Distribution Units: Liquid Cooling Infrastructure for AI Data Centers. 2025 marks the year liquid cooling tipped from bleeding-edge to baseline.Coolant Distribution Units serve as the interfac…
https://introl.com/blog/cooling-distribution-units-cdu-liqui…
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web search NEUTRAL — Cooling Distribution Unit. How CDUs Function in Data Centers: Flow and Thermal Management. A CDU circulates coolant to heat-producing IT hardware and removes heat via a heat exchanger connected to the…
https://supremeintegratedtechnology.com/blog/cdus-for-liquid…
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“Monica Miches, Industrial Advisory Director at Frost & Sullivan”
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A news source (Thailand Business News) explicitly quotes Monica Miches as the Industrial Advisory Director at Frost & Sullivan.
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web search NEUTRAL — "Cooling is no longer simply a facilities issue – it is becoming central to data centre efficiency, uptime resilience, and sustainable digital growth in the AI era," said Monica Miches, Industrial Adv…
https://www.thailand-business-news.com/pr-news/frost-sulliva…
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web search NEUTRAL — Monica Miches z firmy Frost & Sullivan #Frost&Sullivan #FabrykaRoku.
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“The report identifies direct-to-chip liquid cooling as one of the technologies gaining traction across hyperscale and AI infrastructure deployments”
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Multiple sources confirm that direct-to-chip cooling is a key technology gaining traction in hyperscale and AI infrastructure to manage power density.
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web search NEUTRAL — Direct-to-chip cooling is classified into two segments based on the cooling mechanism: Single-phase DTC: Liquid coolant absorbs heat via cold plates and remains in liquid form throughout the loop.
https://stellarix.com/insights/articles/liquid-cooling-the-n…
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web search NEUTRAL — Why Liquid Cooling Is Gaining Momentum in 2025. Unprecedented Power Density. According to the Uptime Institute, the average data center rack power density increased by 38% from 2022 to 2024, with the …
https://www.datacenters.com/news/why-liquid-cooling-is-becom…
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web search NEUTRAL — Direct-to-Chip Cooling: Direct-to-chip cooling involves circulating coolant directly to the heat-generating components. This method offers unparalleled efficiency and cooling effectiveness.
https://www.cyrusone.com/resources/blogs/liquid-cooling-in-h…
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“Frost & Sullivan also points to increasing demand for larger-capacity coolant distribution units”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions for the word 'there' and does not contain any information regarding Frost & Sullivan or CDUs.
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web search NEUTRAL — Note: Do not confuse there, which has meanings that mostly relate to a literal or abstract location, with the words their and they're. Their has to do with what belongs to or is associated with them (…
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web search NEUTRAL — We can use there at the start of a clause as a type of indefinite subject. This means that we can put the actual subject at the end of the clause and so give it emphasis or focus (underlined below): …
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 17, 2022 · In this article, we’ll explain the meanings of their, there, and they’re, how to use each word correctly, and provide example sentences for each term. We’ll also give some tips on how t…
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“operators are increasingly prioritising reliability engineering, leak management and redundancy-by-design when deploying liquid cooling systems”
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The specific phrasing regarding 'reliability engineering, leak management, and redundancy-by-design' is found in one Frost & Sullivan report summary. While other sources discuss liquid cooling generally, they do not specifically corroborate this exact set of priorities.
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web search NEUTRAL — The study also examines the increasing importance of reliability engineering, leak management, and redundancy-by-design, as well as the growing influence of ESG objectives and water stewardship on coo…
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/frost-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Prioritizing a liquid cooled power supply architecture represents a fundamental shift in how facilities address the thermal realities of next-generation computing workloads, particularly in AI trainin…
https://www.bocoelectronics.com/blog/why-prioritize-liquid-c…
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web search NEUTRAL — Data center engineering firm Future Resource Engineering found ways to improve efficiency in 40 data centers this year that would save more than 24 million kWh of energy total. Most of the improvement…
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/cooling/the-problem-of-i…
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“Two-phase cooling systems use liquid-to-gas phase changes to dissipate heat more efficiently, while microchannel cooling architectures use small fluid channels to improve thermal transfer directly at the component level”
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Wikipedia and technical papers confirm that two-phase cooling involves liquid-to-gas phase changes and microchannel architectures use small channels for thermal transfer.
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web search NEUTRAL — Phase transition or phase change, takes place in a thermodynamic system from one phase or state of matter to another one by heat transfer. Phase change examples are the melting of ice or the boiling o…
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web search NEUTRAL — The microchannel and minichannel single-phase heat transfer enhancement devices will extend the applicability of single-phase cooling for critical applications, such as chip cooling, before more aggre…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327021107_Advancing…
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web search NEUTRAL — into single-phase and two-phase solutions Immersion Liquid Cooling is Energy-Efficient and Supports High-Density Deployment Spray liquid cooling is mainly used for efficient heat dissipation of chip-l…
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“Prem Shanmugam, VP and Global Practice Area Leader at Frost & Sullivan”
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The provided Wikipedia evidence is about the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and contains no information about Prem Shanmugam or Frost & Sullivan.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbr. CPI(M)) is a Marxist–Leninist political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electoral seats, and one of …
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