Johnson Controls has launched its Silent-Aire Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU) platform, expanding its data center thermal management portfolio. The Silent-Aire CDU series is designed to address the increasing cooling demands of high-density data center racks, especially as facilities transition to higher-power hardware configurations and liquid cooling.
According to Johnson Controls, the Silent-Aire CDU platform supports scalable cooling capacities from 500 kW to over 10 MW. It features flexible configurations to suit a range of deployment models, including in-row and whitespace perimeter positioning. The CDUs are intended to accommodate different liquid-cooling and hybrid environments, focusing on high-performance settings from edge-based inference to large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) factories.
The company says its engineering approach incorporates collaboration with hyperscale, colocation, and semiconductor industry partners to deliver a solution specific to next-generation AI training and inference hardware. Johnson Controls reports that the new platform can help operators efficiently cool advanced chipsets and maintain consistent performance in evolving IT environments.
The Silent-Aire CDU joins Johnson Controls’ existing suite of thermal management offerings, including the Silent-Aire, York, and M&M Carnot brands, serving global data centers. Johnson Controls claims its solutions can cut non-IT energy consumption by more than 50 percent in most North American data center hubs. It notes that, for gigawatt-scale AI facilities, this represents energy savings equivalent to the annual consumption of over 200,000 households. The product is manufactured in facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, totaling more than 1.8 million square feet of production space.
Supporting technical operations, Johnson Controls points to its network of over 40,000 field and service technicians available globally to provide service, maintenance, and parts delivery.
In 2025, Johnson Controls was named a top thermal management provider for data centers by ABI Research.
Source: Johnson Controls
