Liquid Cooling
GPU clusters operating at 40–100kW per rack exceed the limits of air cooling. Our dedicated liquid cooling production facility delivers thermally validated, fully integrated AI infrastructure that’s production-ready before it reaches your data center floor.
LIQUID COOLING BY THE NUMBERS
reduced energy consumption
reduction in carbon footprint
better performance in HPC tasks
LIQUID COOLING FOR ENTERPRISE-SCALE AI & HPC INFRASTRUCTURE
- Direct-to-chip liquid cooling eliminates thermal throttling, increases component reliability, and unlocks the full performance envelope of your AI investment.
- Support high-power AI infrastructure with greater confidence. AHEAD’s liquid-cooling-ready facility is built for the complexity of direct-to-chip rack integration, helping organizations deploy dense environments with less implementation risk.
- Improve performance and protect critical components. AHEAD optimizes densely packed racks for thermal management, helping reduce overheating risk and sustain reliability for CPUs and GPUs.
- Lower total cost of ownership as compute density rises. Liquid-cooled rack designs help organizations increase density, expand free cooling, and improve performance per watt.
- Scale AI and HPC infrastructure with designs matched to workload demands. AHEAD’s dedicated rack integration facility delivers air- and liquid-cooled design, build, and deployment services for single- and multi-rack environments.
- Increase processing power without expanding physical footprint at the same rate. AHEAD customizes integrated rack solutions to support the demands of a wide range of AI and HPC workloads.
- Add more compute capacity within a similar footprint. High-density server architectures support multiple GPUs or processors within a single liquid-cooled rack.
- Improve efficiency and create a clearer path to scale. AHEAD integrates liquid cooling systems with existing facility infrastructure to optimize performance and cost over time.
- Reduce resource consumption while improving cooling effectiveness. Liquid cooling has become critical for maintaining efficiency in high-density environments while lowering strain on natural resources.
- Improve heat removal and use space more efficiently. Direct-to-chip liquid cooling removes heat more effectively than air and reduces reliance on server fans.
- Expand high-density capacity without the disruption and capital burden of major facility redesign. Direct-to-chip liquid-cooled racks help data centers meet thermal requirements with a more practical path than immersion cooling.
AHEAD DEDICATED RACK SCALE INTEGRATION FACILITY
We operate 350,000+ sq ft of purpose-built AI infrastructure production capacity — including 75,000 sq ft of dedicated rack integration and thermal deployment space — engineered for high-density AI programs at enterprise scale. We deploy complete and fully tested solutions from our facilities to yours, including the racks, servers, liquid cooling infrastructure, and networking. All engineered for reliability, resilience, and security.
Our diverse team of hardware and AI experts can design and implement infrastructure solutions that are exceptionally reliable, resilient, and secure.
AHEAD’S HANDS-ON INNOVATION LAB
Our AI Infrastructure Validation Center benchmarks liquid cooling architectures against real production workloads before deployment to ensure your AI environment performs as designed.
The Lab features both rack-scale and direct-to-chip cooling. Experience facility chiller cooling demos that simulate real-world deployment scenarios, or see side-by-side comparisons of thermal efficiency and power consumption to make data-driven infrastructure decisions.
It’s your sandbox to tweak until your infrastructure meets your specific requirements.
SOLUTIONS ALIGNED WITH YOUR AI JOURNEY
AHEAD helps determine your AI opportunity, define use cases and data requirements, and set a course for AI that turns potential into an acceleration plan.
AHEAD modernizes your data foundation and your digital core, edge, and cloud, to set you up for success with AI.
AHEAD pairs, tunes, and automates your machine learning and AI models with use cases and requirements on top of a strong data foundation.
