DDC Solutions, part of the Daikin Applied group, has opened an AI Cooling Showcase allowing customers to get a first-hand look at a complete, integrated cooling architecture operating under live, high-density GPU workloads.
The US Showcase brings together complementary capabilities across the portfolio – from Daikin Applied's facility-level chiller infrastructure to DDC Solutions' rack containment and airside thermal management to Chilldyne's direct-to-chip liquid cooling.
Together, these technologies demonstrate how to address the full thermal challenge from the chiller plant to the chip.
Cirrascale Cloud Services, a leading neocloud provider and anchor tenant at the San Diego facility, runs active client AI workloads on the infrastructure.
The AI Cooling Showcase reflects Daikin Applied's broader strategy to bring the full depth of its data centre cooling portfolio to customers as one integrated solution.
Daikin Applied is one of the world's largest HVAC and chiller manufacturers. DDC Solutions and Chilldyne extend that capability to the rack level, closing the gap between facility-level thermal infrastructure and the chip-level cooling demands that modern AI GPU clusters require.
Together, these complementary capabilities address distinct but interdependent layers of the same thermal management challenge:
Daikin Applied handles the chiller plant and facility-level cooling; DDC manages the airside environment at the rack, including physical containment, fire suppression and DCIM monitoring; and Chilldyne's negative-pressure CDU captures heat directly at the GPU die, where air cooling cannot reach at scale.
DDC Solutions CEO, Keith Markley, said the showcase was built to give buyers confidence so they know exactly what they are buying.
The Showcase runs a rack-contained, hybrid cooling architecture under live GPU load, giving customers the opportunity to observe the complete thermal solution operating under real conditions rather than a staged demo.
In addition to the physical showcase, DDC offers a structured onsite training course as part of every scheduled visit.
The course covers hybrid cooling architecture design, failure mode analysis across airside and liquid cooling systems, asset protection strategies and infrastructure planning for next-generation GPU density.