Johnson Controls has added the Silent-Aire Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU) platform to its data center thermal management offering.
The latest addition to the company's end-to-end thermal management portfolio enables data centers to transition seamlessly to liquid cooling as rack densities rise.
The Silent-Aire CDUs offer a wide range of scalable cooling capacities from 500kW to over 10MW in flexible designs that are uniquely tailored to suit the needs of any data center deployment.
With the rapid growth of AI and increasing demand for computing power, denser chips are generating more heat, making cooling innovation a critical priority.
Silent-Aire CDUs allow for precision cooling of this equipment, enabling data center owners and operators to deploy the latest in semiconductor technology.
Positioned either within the rack row adjacent to heat-generating equipment or in the whitespace perimeter, Silent-Aire CDUs are designed for flexibility to support a wide range of liquid-cooling configurations and hybrid designs to deliver precise, efficient cooling of high-performance environments ranging from edge-based inference to large AI factories.
This launch is built on Johnson Controls’ broad portfolio of existing Silent-Aire, York and M&M Carnot thermal management products that serve data centers worldwide.
By adopting Johnson Controls’ comprehensive thermal management solutions, owners and operators can significantly improve total facility efficiency.
By collaborating with leading ecosystem players in the hyperscale, colocation and semiconductor industry, we’ve engineered an innovative and scalable platform that meets the demands of next-generation AI training and inference hardware, delivering consistent performance and reinforcing our role as a strategic partner to data center professionals scaling for the digital economy.
However, Johnson Controls’ solutions can reduce non-IT energy consumption by more than 50% in most North American data center hubs.
For a gigawatt-scale AI factory, this reduction translates to enough energy savings to power over 200,000 households annually.
Johnson Controls manufactures the Silent-Aire CDUs at facilities across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
With more than 1.8 million square feet of production floorspace, this global footprint helps to increase capacity needed to meet the accelerated pace of data center development.
A robust network of over 40,000 field and service technicians backs Johnson Controls’ building technology to ensure reliable service, maintenance and parts delivery worldwide.
In 2025, Johnson Controls was named a top thermal management provider for data centers by ABI Research, recognizing its excellence in innovation, implementation and customer-centric approach.
