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Hot regions drive liquid cooling adoption for ai data centers, ETDatacenters

Published

18 July 2026

Topic

operational-macro

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AI Infrastructure

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Asia-PacificMiddle East

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Read at datacenters.economictimes.indiatimes.com

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Fusion42 · 18 July 2026 · Fusion42 review

Data centre operators in the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia are adopting liquid and hybrid cooling solutions to manage high-density AI workloads in hot, water-stressed environments, moving beyond traditional air cooling. Operators balance competing tradeoffs: water versus energy efficiency, capital expenditure versus future density readiness, complexity versus reliability, and sustainability versus speed to market.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Infrastructure.

◆ The Wire takeaway

If you build cooling equipment, liquid systems are now table-stakes for AI datacenters in India, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East—the operators have moved from asking 'should we?' to 'how fast can we build it?'. Your customer is designing new facilities around your product, not retrofitting it after the fact.

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1 source · 18 Jul 2026

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