Vertiv has completed a direct-to-chip liquid cooling deployment at CapitaLand India Trust’s CLDC Mumbai 01 data center in Airoli, Navi Mumbai, supporting 30 megawatts of artificial intelligence workloads for an unnamed hyperscale customer.
The infrastructure provider described the project as India’s first high-density liquid cooling deployment of its kind. The claim comes from Vertiv and has not been independently verified, although the project’s main technical and capacity details were also reported by Express Computer.
A 30 MW cooling deployment for AI workloads
According to Vertiv’s announcement, its secondary fluid network system carries coolant from the facility cooling system to cold plates attached directly to computing components. The closed-loop design is intended to remove heat from high-density server hardware more efficiently than conventional air cooling alone.
Vertiv said the system supports 30 MW of AI workloads at the site. That figure refers to the capacity served by the cooling deployment, not the total capacity of the broader data center campus. The company did not identify the hyperscale customer or disclose the project’s commercial value.
Direct-to-chip cooling is increasingly used for dense AI infrastructure because graphics processing units and other accelerators generate more heat within each rack. Vertiv’s technical overview says the approach uses cold plates to capture heat from high-power components, while air cooling may still be needed for components that are not connected to the liquid loop.
Installation and testing at CLDC Mumbai 01
Vertiv said it established a production facility capable of manufacturing customized technology-loop skids for the deployment and future large projects. These skids form part of the distribution infrastructure that transfers coolant between facility-level systems and the computing equipment.
The companies also developed installation and commissioning procedures designed to reduce dust ingress during construction. Vertiv said it used its secondary fluid network balancing kits to check flow across the system and conducted Level 4 testing before the customer went live. Level 4 testing generally assesses integrated equipment under simulated operating conditions before final production use, but the release did not provide detailed test results.
CapitaLand Investment worked with Vertiv on project execution, while CapitaLand India Trust owns the Mumbai facility. The announcement did not state when the 30 MW deployment became operational or whether the hyperscale customer will expand its footprint at the site.
Part of a 108 MW Navi Mumbai campus
The official CapitaLand property page lists CLDC Mumbai 01 as a carrier-neutral data center campus with 108 MW of total power capacity. It describes the site as being under development and highlights high floor loading, high rack power density and multiple cooling options.
CapitaLand also says the project is designed to pursue LEED Gold certification and includes high-efficiency chillers, water economization, solar panels and intelligent infrastructure and energy-management systems. The 30 MW Vertiv deployment therefore represents one part of a larger campus rather than the entire planned capacity.
TNGlobal previously reported that CapitaLand India Trust secured an INR13 billion sustainability-linked loan in 2023 to finance the first phase of the Navi Mumbai data center. The trust said at the time that the project would be developed across two buildings with an eventual capacity of 108 MW.
The deployment illustrates how liquid cooling is shifting from small pilot installations to large operational systems as data center operators prepare for denser AI hardware. It also shows the supporting work required beyond installing cold plates, including coolant distribution, loop balancing, commissioning and testing.
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