Flex Demonstrates Leadership with Acquisition of JetCool
For those who have been following our continued coverage of the liquid cooling industry's rapid consolidation, it likely will come as no surprise that Flex announced its acquisition of JetCool today.
The companies had announced a strategic collaboration prior to OCP Summit, and with moves by Schneider and Jabil to acquire competitors in the space, that strategic collaboration was likely to get cozier. Today's announcement brings JetCool's direct liquid cooling propulsion technology, developed out of the MIT brain trust, into the Flex data center portfolio as a perfect complement to Flex's critical and embedded power offerings. Of equal importance, it brings top tech talent into the growing data center business best known for manufacturing services.
Some people may wonder why Flex targeted direct liquid cooling over an immersion cooling alternative as an acquisition target. During our recent TechArena podcast interview with Rob Campbell, Flex’s President of Communication, Enterprise and Cloud, he shared that JetCool's patented precision, direct-to-hotspots cooling jets enable direct liquid cooling systems to cool much higher compute densities than previously assumed. If true, this could be a game changer for many operators seeking to avoid the added complexity of immersion tank deployment.
Regardless, this is a win for Flex customers, as they can now source innovative liquid cooling with the same scale and supply chain flexibility that Flex offers for compute infrastructure and power solutions, critical with growing demand in AI data centers.
We'll be following this story with more engagement with the JetCool team at SC'24 next week.
For those who have been following our continued coverage of the liquid cooling industry's rapid consolidation, it likely will come as no surprise that Flex announced its acquisition of JetCool today.
The companies had announced a strategic collaboration prior to OCP Summit, and with moves by Schneider and Jabil to acquire competitors in the space, that strategic collaboration was likely to get cozier. Today's announcement brings JetCool's direct liquid cooling propulsion technology, developed out of the MIT brain trust, into the Flex data center portfolio as a perfect complement to Flex's critical and embedded power offerings. Of equal importance, it brings top tech talent into the growing data center business best known for manufacturing services.
Some people may wonder why Flex targeted direct liquid cooling over an immersion cooling alternative as an acquisition target. During our recent TechArena podcast interview with Rob Campbell, Flex’s President of Communication, Enterprise and Cloud, he shared that JetCool's patented precision, direct-to-hotspots cooling jets enable direct liquid cooling systems to cool much higher compute densities than previously assumed. If true, this could be a game changer for many operators seeking to avoid the added complexity of immersion tank deployment.
Regardless, this is a win for Flex customers, as they can now source innovative liquid cooling with the same scale and supply chain flexibility that Flex offers for compute infrastructure and power solutions, critical with growing demand in AI data centers.
We'll be following this story with more engagement with the JetCool team at SC'24 next week.
