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CASTROL LAUNCHES NEW FLUID MANAGEMENT SERVICE TO ACCELERATE ADOPTION OF DATA CENTRE LIQUID COOLING
Castrol has launched a new fluid management service for data centre liquid cooling, addressing a critical gap as the industry transitions away from traditional air-cooling systems.
Announced at the Datacloud Global Congress 2025 in Cannes, Castrol’ s new service model covers all four phases of the data centre operation lifecycle: system start-up, ongoing maintenance, break-fix support and fluid disposal. This approach is designed to help remove operational barriers in the adoption of liquid cooling in data centres.
“ Data centre operators recognise the benefits of liquid cooling but need assurance around long-term fluid management,” said Peter Huang, Global Vice President of Data Centre Thermal Management at Castrol.“ Castrol has delivered fluid services for the automotive industry for decades, we’ re now bringing this proven expertise to data centres with a service model that supports optimal performance throughout the entire lifecycle.”
Castrol’ s service launch comes at a time when the data centre industry faces mounting pressure to improve cooling efficiency. Recent industry research indicates that traditional
air-cooling systems struggle to handle increased computing demands from AI and edge computing applications, with 74 % of data centre experts believing immersion cooling is now essential to meet current power requirements.
Wired Real Estate Group( WiredRE), an independent data centre development firm focused onAI, has announced the successful private development and exit of a 1,000 + megawatt AI infrastructure site in the Dallas market – believed to be one of the largest non-nuclear AI-focused data centre projects of 2024. The site, now under control by a global cloud service provider, was transformed from insolvency into a marketready, power-enabled asset in less than 12 months.
“ As AI accelerates demand for compute infrastructure,‘ ready-tooccupy sites’ have become the bottleneck,” added Thompson.“ WiredRE sits at the intersection of energy, land and institutional capital – we are well positioned to meet that demand.”
WiredRE is actively advancing a pipeline of similar projects across the Americas, LATAM, APAC, and EMEA.
WiredRE’ s Founder and CEO Everett Thompson invested in the distressed project, which was initially insolvent and lacked access to budget, power and network infrastructure. He then applied WiredRE’ s Platform – a global, curated network of over 10,000 sector experts, power plant engineering insight and hyperscale buyer relationships – to structure the turnaround and drive the successful exit. The WiredRE Platform functions as a flywheel – sourcing projects, derisking execution and connecting capital with the highestdemand buyers in the world.
“ From the outset, this was an insolvent project in an unrecognised location with no budget, no power and no connectivity,” said Thompson.“ Through a structured approach focused on technical viability, power development and buyer alignment, we more than doubled the expected exit value while accelerating time-to-close.”
WIREDRE LEADS ONE OF THE LARGEST DATA CENTRE TRANSACTIONS OF 2024
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