Johnson Controls has signed an agreement to acquire Alloy Enterprises, a Boston-based company specialising in next-generation thermal management for high-performance data centres and other mission critical industrial applications.
The move will expand Johnson Controls' leadership and capabilities in the high growth data centre cooling segment.
Founded in 2020, Alloy Enterprises is a thermal, mechanical and materials sciences technology innovator focused on a proprietary platform with advanced direct liquid cooling components that can enable up to a 35 per cent improvement in thermal management efficiency.
The platform allows heat to be removed faster and more effectively, and can reduce pressure drop by up to 75 per cent so fluid can flow more easily. This results in materially lower overall cooling system energy use.
Johnson Controls president of global products & solutions, Lei Schlitz, saidthis acquisition is about enabling their customers to stay ahead of fast-changing compute demands by adding another core technology that enables the company to optimise the overall thermal management architecture of a data centre.
“It will also strengthen our core technology capabilities that can scale across the Johnson Controls portfolio and reinforces our long-term commitment to lead more broadly in advanced thermal management solutions for mission critical applications," Schlitz said.
“With the addition of Alloy Enterprises, we are poised to set new standards in cooling efficiency and capacity and help customers accelerate time to market with the right integrated technologies. We look forward to welcoming the talented Alloy colleagues to the Johnson Controls team."
The addition of Alloy's capabilities, including a proprietary manufacturing process that advances the liquid cooling efficiency of GPUs/CPUs, memory, network interfaces and more, complements Johnson Controls' existing range of end-to-end cooling technologies.
Alloy Enterprises co-founder & CEO, Alison Forsyth, said the acquisition will accelerate the impact of their unique technology.
"We're excited to join Johnson Controls and accelerate the impact of our unique technology," Forsyth said.
“We'll continue to work closely to solve the industry's most urgent challenges in data centres and other mission-critical environments.
“We look forward to this new chapter and continuing to scale with one of the world's most respected and experienced leaders in thermal management innovation."
The transaction is expected to be completed in fiscal Q3. Financial terms were not disclosed.
February 25