Vertiv has launched a high-density modular data center offering for artificial intelligence (AI).
Dubbed the MegaMod CoolChip, the company said the offering aims to help bring capacity for AI online as much as 50 percent faster than standard on-site construction.
The MegaMod CoolChip uses liquid cooling - including direct-to-chip cooling - and can be configured to support the platforms of AI compute providers and scaled to customer requirements. This can include a hybrid approach of both air and liquid cooling.
The solution is available globally and can be used as a modular retrofit or as a new free-standing data centers, up to multiple megawatts of capacity.
“MegaMod CoolChip is a fully equipped critical digital infrastructure solution that customers can deploy quickly, and with confidence,” said Viktor Petik, vice president of Vertiv infrastructure solutions. “Factory assembly and testing in a controlled environment help to accelerate the time to build, as well as providing control over cost and schedules. The addition of this solution to our portfolio provides more flexibility to successfully accelerate AI.”
The MegaMod arrives in prefabricated units, including the building enclosure and all building systems which are then assembled on-site. It is also available in skid-mounted units.
It is also compatible with Vertiv's Trinergy UPS and PowerNexus solution, both of which were launched earlier this month.
Vertiv claims that the solution can improve power usage effectiveness compared to data centers using "traditional technologies," though does not offer concrete data on this.
Modular AI data center solutions have been increasingly popping up this year in the wake of the AI boom. Sonic Edge has teamed up with Iceotope for an AI modular data center offering using the latter's precision liquid cooling technology. LiquidStack has a similar modular offering for AI and advanced cloud computing applications.
In April 2024, Vertiv launched the 360AI range of data center infrastructure offerings that are designed to support the higher cooling and power requirements of data centers running AI workloads. This shortly followed the company's unveiling of a digital tool for designing prefabricated modular data centers.
