Johnson Controls Webinar: Liquid Cooling's Next Frontier

Datacentremagazine · Aug 17, 2026 · 453 words · By Saffron Humphreys

AI Infrastructure Scaling Data Center Thermal Management Corporate Product Promotion

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Johnson Controls is hosting a webinar on August 27 to discuss their microcapillary cold plate technology for data center liquid cooling. The session will cover how these designs reduce thermal resistance and pressure drop to improve energy efficiency and production scalability for AI-driven hardware.

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What happened

Johnson Controls Webinar: Liquid Cooling's Next Frontier With AI chips becoming ever more powerful and rack densities climbing within data centre walls, more heat is being generated in concentrated spaces.

Why it matters

Those factors put greater pressure on the cooling systems tasked with getting heat away from the silicon before it becomes a performance or energy problem.

Common ground

But Johnson Controls believes the answer may lie right at the source: the cold plate.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

Follow-up questions

What new context would change how readers understand this AI Infrastructure Scaling story?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Johnson Controls' approach uses single-piece cold plates without O-rings or brazing?
How does this story connect AI Infrastructure Scaling with Data Center Thermal Management over the next few days?

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Low risk. This article shows minimal use of propaganda techniques.

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eFinder identified 1 propaganda technique in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Johnson Controls' approach uses single-piece cold plates without O-rings or brazing.”

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Two independent web search results from Data Centre Magazine confirm that Johnson Controls' approach uses single-piece cold plates without O-rings or brazing to simplify qualification and yield.

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web search NEUTRAL — Single-piece construction: Cold plates without O-rings or brazing are designed to simplify qualification and support consistent yield at high volume.Johnson Controls’ microcapillary cold plates are bu…
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/johnson-controls-webinar…

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web search NEUTRAL — Johnson Controls' approach uses single-piece cold plates without O-rings or brazing. The company says this can speed up qualification while supporting consistent yield as production volumes increase.
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/johnson-controls-webinar…

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web search NEUTRAL — Johnson Controls is a global leader in thermal management, mission-critical building systems, energy efficiency and decarbonization.Energy costs are rising and demand is unpredictable. Reduce energy u…
https://www.johnsoncontrols.com/

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Claim 2: “The design is intended to work with 44°C water”

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The specific detail that the design is intended to work with 44°C water is mentioned in one source (Data Centre Magazine). Other sources discuss the technology generally but do not specify the temperature.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amara Raja Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate, headquartered in Tirupati. The group has a presence in the automotive battery business, packaged foods and beverages, electronics products man…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Johnson Controls International plc is an American-Irish multinational conglomerate headquartered in Cork, Ireland, that produces fire, HVAC, and security equipment for buildings. As of mid-2019, it em…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Controls

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Johnson Controls Hitachi AC Limited is a Japanese multinational air conditioning manufacturing company that manufactures home appliances and specialises in air conditioning and cooling technology. The…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Controls_Hitachi

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Claim 3: “The webinar, "Liquid Cooling's Next Frontier: Rethinking Heat Capture at the Cold Plate", will take place on August 27 from 4:00pm to 5:00pm BST.”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant search results regarding Copenhagen Airport and Wikipedia entries for the Falklands War, Philippines, and second-wave feminism. There is no mention of the webinar date or time.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) was a ten-week war in the South Atlantic in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over possession of the Falkland Islands and its dependenci…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands, with a total area o…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades, ending with the feminist sex wars in the early 1980s and being replaced by third-wa…
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Claim 4: “Bill Flaherty, Sr. Director, Customer Solutions, Johnson Controls will explore how microcapillary designs can capture heat more efficiently where coolant meets the chip.”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant search results regarding quiz widgets and Wikipedia entries for John F. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy II, and Milton Berle. There is no mention of Bill Flaherty or his role at Johnson Controls.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest perso…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Joseph Patrick Kennedy II (born September 24, 1952) is an American businessman, Democratic politician, and a member of the Kennedy family. He is the eldest son of former U.S. Attorney General Robert F…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger; Yiddish: ‏מענדעל בערלינגער; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American actor and comedian. His career as an entertainer spanned over eight decades, first in s…
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Claim 5: “The company says its microcapillary cold plates use novel microgeometries to reduce thermal resistance by up to 35% while cutting pressure drop by up to four times compared with incumbent designs such as skived fin.”

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Two independent sources (Data Centre Magazine and a specific webinar page) confirm the claim that microcapillary cold plates reduce thermal resistance by up to 35% and pressure drop by up to four times compared to skived fin designs.

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Claim 6: “Johnson Controls is also developing thermal management technologies at facility level, including magnetic bearing chillers”

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Multiple independent web sources confirm that Johnson Controls has developed facility-level thermal management technologies, specifically mentioning magnetic bearing chillers (YORK magnetic bearing compressors).

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web search NEUTRAL — While Johnson Controls has developed facility-level technologies including magnetic bearing chillers, the webinar focuses specifically on the cold plate as the point where coolant meets silicon.
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/johnson-controls-webinar…

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web search NEUTRAL — Johnson Controls announces new thermal management technologies for data centers to manage AI power demands and reduce energy use by over 50%.
https://fireandsafetyjournalamericas.com/jci-thermal-data-ce…

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web search NEUTRAL — The chillers utilize YORK magnetic bearing compressors, deriving from Johnson Control’s acquisition in 2019 of Synchrony, a developer of advanced magnetic bearings and...
https://magneticsmag.com/surging-data-centers-drive-reliance…

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