IIT-Bombay has partnered with digital infrastructure solutions provider Vertiv to develop advanced cooling solutions for artificial intelligence-powered data centres. The collaboration addresses rising thermal challenges as AI adoption grows rapidly across Indian businesses, and the power consumption of graphics processing units is expected to increase sharply by 2025.

 

 

IIT-Bombay Director Professor Shireesh Kedare said the partnership will help convert academic research into industry-relevant, future-ready solutions. The project will begin with the design of a dry cooler for a 40-kilowatt liquid cooling load, to be tested at IIT-Bombay’s Heat Pump Laboratory and later evaluated at Vertiv’s Pune facility. Vertiv said the initiative will also help create a pool of industry-ready engineering talent.