As AI Factory adoption accelerates, infrastructure requirements are rapidly expanding beyond traditional data centers and toward industrial-scale environments. Leveraging its expertise in power systems, cooling technology, and industrial engineering, MHI is driving an integrated AI infrastructure portfolio that combines advanced cooling, modular systems, and power technologies to support this transition.
To address the increasing power and cooling challenges of expanding AI-enabled data center infrastructure, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is shipping a 10MW-class centrifugal chiller test unit to the United States to support next-generation high-density AI workloads, expected to arrive at the Port of Brunswick, Georgia, around July.
This shipment marks a significant commercialization milestone in MHI’s integrated AI infrastructure strategy. As part of this strategy, MHI is promoting the Modular Chiller Plant (MCP), a pre-engineered cooling system that integrates MHI’s centrifugal chillers as the core cooling component into a modular architecture along with pumps, heat exchangers, and controls. MCP is designed to simplify deployment and enable scalable expansion while supporting NVIDIA DSX™-aligned cooling architecture and scalable water-cooled AI deployments.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ MCP architecture enables effective utilization of free cooling operating modes and improved power usage efficiency (PUE), and its closed-loop configuration addresses growing concerns about water scarcity and water usage efficiency (WUE) in large data centers. MCP currently has U.S. safety and regulatory certifications, including UL certification, and the centrifugal chiller shipment will help prepare for certification prior to commercial deployment. Designed to reduce on-site integration requirements and support future growth, MCP helps hyperscale, colocation, and AI infrastructure operators efficiently manage cooling as computing density continues to increase.
Enabling AI factories at scale requires tight collaboration across compute, power, and cooling. NVIDIA DSX is NVIDIA’s AI factory-scale platform that integrates design, simulation, operations, and ecosystem technologies. In support of this strategy, MHI has joined the NVIDIA Partner Network as a power and cooling partner, collaborating with NVIDIA and ecosystem partners to advance integrated power and cooling technologies for NVIDIA DSX.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ expertise in energy, engineering, and industrial infrastructure systems underpins these solutions. The centrifugal chiller is based on proven technology with a rich track record in mission-critical applications, while MHI’s advanced power initiatives, including 800VDC, are built on decades of experience in large-scale power infrastructure and transportation systems and developed in collaboration with ecosystem partners.
“The growth of AI is driving a step change in the scale and complexity of infrastructure,” said Makoto Gomi, Senior General Manager, Data Center & Energy Management, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. “Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is combining advanced cooling technology, modular design, and industrial engineering expertise with NVIDIA AI infrastructure to help enable a scalable, reliable, and energy-efficient AI infrastructure.”
“AI factories require computing, power, and cooling to be designed as a single system, and NVIDIA DSX provides a platform for that system-level approach. MHI’s work in large-scale cooling and 800 VDC power infrastructure will help ecosystem partners build more scalable and energy-efficient AI factories,” said Vladimir, vice president of AI Infrastructure at NVIDIA. Troy says.
Going forward, MHI will continue to expand its integrated AI infrastructure portfolio through technology investments that support the evolving requirements of AI factories and high-density computing environments.
