Global Data Center Cooling Unit Market Growth (Status and Outlook) 2026-2032
Description
The global Data Center Cooling Unit market size is predicted to grow from US$ 10872 million in 2025 to US$ 32138 million in 2032; it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 16.8% from 2026 to 2032.
A Data Center Cooling Unit is a self-contained piece of cooling equipment installed in or near a data center that removes heat from the IT environment and helps maintain required temperature and humidity for servers, storage, and networking equipment.
AI/HPC drives a surge in heat dissipation density, transforming liquid cooling from an "optional" to a "standard feature": As the power density of GPU/AI racks rapidly increases, traditional pure air cooling is becoming increasingly inadequate in high-density scenarios. Market trends are clearly shifting towards direct-to-chip, immersion cooling, and "air-cooling + liquid-cooling hybrid" architectures, particularly evident in newly built high-density data centers and cloud/hosted data centers. Industry organizations and market research generally consider the "heat dissipation bottleneck brought about by high-density computing power" as the core reason for the growth in cooling system investment in the coming years, and point out that the proportion of liquid cooling solutions in overall data center cooling technology is rising.
Sustainability and resource constraints are becoming key variables, with water usage effectiveness (WUE) and site climate inversely influencing technology roadmaps: The market is not only pursuing lower PUE but also paying more attention to the water risks associated with cooling (water prices, water permits, droughts, and water restriction policies), driving more projects to adopt closed-loop, low-water/zero-water cooling, and heat recovery solutions. However, this often involves a "water-electricity trade-off" (more water-efficient may consume more electricity or have higher CAPEX). Meanwhile, research and media reports also point out that many data centers are located in warmer climates, objectively increasing cooling loads and energy efficiency pressures, prompting operators to accelerate the adoption of more advanced cooling and intelligent control strategies.
Engineering delivery and energy efficiency optimization are progressing in tandem: modularization/prefabrication + increased supply and return water temperatures/intelligent control: On the supply side, data center construction cycles are being compressed, driving cooling systems towards modular, prefabricated, and rapidly scalable "building block" delivery to match the rapid deployment of computing power; on the operation side, more and more data centers are reducing system energy consumption by increasing chilled water/cooling water setpoints, expanding natural cooling windows, refining airflow management, and implementing AI control. Industry analysis indicates that increasing chilled water temperature typically brings considerable energy savings to cooling systems (e.g., approximately 2–3% energy savings per 1°C increase), making "higher temperature liquid cooling loops + less mechanical refrigeration" a continuously strengthening trend.
LPI (LP Information)' newest research report, the “Data Center Cooling Unit Industry Forecast” looks at past sales and reviews total world Data Center Cooling Unit sales in 2025, providing a comprehensive analysis by region and market sector of projected Data Center Cooling Unit sales for 2026 through 2032. With Data Center Cooling Unit sales broken down by region, market sector and sub-sector, this report provides a detailed analysis in US$ millions of the world Data Center Cooling Unit industry.
This Insight Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the global Data Center Cooling Unit landscape and highlights key trends related to product segmentation, company formation, revenue, and market share, latest development, and M&A activity. This report also analyses the strategies of leading global companies with a focus on Data Center Cooling Unit portfolios and capabilities, market entry strategies, market positions, and geographic footprints, to better understand these firms’ unique position in an accelerating global Data Center Cooling Unit market.
This Insight Report evaluates the key market trends, drivers, and affecting factors shaping the global outlook for Data Center Cooling Unit and breaks down the forecast by Type, by Application, geography, and market size to highlight emerging pockets of opportunity. With a transparent methodology based on hundreds of bottom-up qualitative and quantitative market inputs, this study forecast offers a highly nuanced view of the current state and future trajectory in the global Data Center Cooling Unit.
This report presents a comprehensive overview, market shares, and growth opportunities of Data Center Cooling Unit market by product type, application, key players and key regions and countries.
Segmentation by Type:
Air Cooled
Liquid Cooled
Other
Segmentation by Equipment:
Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU)
Computer Room Air Conditioner
Chillers
Other
Segmentation by Power:
High Power
Low Power
Segmentation by Application:
Small and Medium-sized Data Center
Large Data Center
Ultra-large Data Center
This report also splits the market by region:
Americas
United States
Canada
Mexico
Brazil
APAC
China
Japan
Korea
Southeast Asia
India
Australia
Europe
Germany
France
UK
Italy
Russia
Middle East & Africa
Egypt
South Africa
Israel
Turkey
GCC Countries
The below companies that are profiled have been selected based on inputs gathered from primary experts and analyzing the company's coverage, product portfolio, its market penetration.
Vertiv
Stulz
Envicool
Schneider Electric
Rittal
Mitsubishi Electric
Shenling
YMK
Huawei
Canatal
iTeaq
Airsys
Airedale
Please note: The report will take approximately 2 business days to prepare and deliver.
A Data Center Cooling Unit is a self-contained piece of cooling equipment installed in or near a data center that removes heat from the IT environment and helps maintain required temperature and humidity for servers, storage, and networking equipment.
AI/HPC drives a surge in heat dissipation density, transforming liquid cooling from an "optional" to a "standard feature": As the power density of GPU/AI racks rapidly increases, traditional pure air cooling is becoming increasingly inadequate in high-density scenarios. Market trends are clearly shifting towards direct-to-chip, immersion cooling, and "air-cooling + liquid-cooling hybrid" architectures, particularly evident in newly built high-density data centers and cloud/hosted data centers. Industry organizations and market research generally consider the "heat dissipation bottleneck brought about by high-density computing power" as the core reason for the growth in cooling system investment in the coming years, and point out that the proportion of liquid cooling solutions in overall data center cooling technology is rising.
Sustainability and resource constraints are becoming key variables, with water usage effectiveness (WUE) and site climate inversely influencing technology roadmaps: The market is not only pursuing lower PUE but also paying more attention to the water risks associated with cooling (water prices, water permits, droughts, and water restriction policies), driving more projects to adopt closed-loop, low-water/zero-water cooling, and heat recovery solutions. However, this often involves a "water-electricity trade-off" (more water-efficient may consume more electricity or have higher CAPEX). Meanwhile, research and media reports also point out that many data centers are located in warmer climates, objectively increasing cooling loads and energy efficiency pressures, prompting operators to accelerate the adoption of more advanced cooling and intelligent control strategies.
Engineering delivery and energy efficiency optimization are progressing in tandem: modularization/prefabrication + increased supply and return water temperatures/intelligent control: On the supply side, data center construction cycles are being compressed, driving cooling systems towards modular, prefabricated, and rapidly scalable "building block" delivery to match the rapid deployment of computing power; on the operation side, more and more data centers are reducing system energy consumption by increasing chilled water/cooling water setpoints, expanding natural cooling windows, refining airflow management, and implementing AI control. Industry analysis indicates that increasing chilled water temperature typically brings considerable energy savings to cooling systems (e.g., approximately 2–3% energy savings per 1°C increase), making "higher temperature liquid cooling loops + less mechanical refrigeration" a continuously strengthening trend.
LPI (LP Information)' newest research report, the “Data Center Cooling Unit Industry Forecast” looks at past sales and reviews total world Data Center Cooling Unit sales in 2025, providing a comprehensive analysis by region and market sector of projected Data Center Cooling Unit sales for 2026 through 2032. With Data Center Cooling Unit sales broken down by region, market sector and sub-sector, this report provides a detailed analysis in US$ millions of the world Data Center Cooling Unit industry.
This Insight Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the global Data Center Cooling Unit landscape and highlights key trends related to product segmentation, company formation, revenue, and market share, latest development, and M&A activity. This report also analyses the strategies of leading global companies with a focus on Data Center Cooling Unit portfolios and capabilities, market entry strategies, market positions, and geographic footprints, to better understand these firms’ unique position in an accelerating global Data Center Cooling Unit market.
This Insight Report evaluates the key market trends, drivers, and affecting factors shaping the global outlook for Data Center Cooling Unit and breaks down the forecast by Type, by Application, geography, and market size to highlight emerging pockets of opportunity. With a transparent methodology based on hundreds of bottom-up qualitative and quantitative market inputs, this study forecast offers a highly nuanced view of the current state and future trajectory in the global Data Center Cooling Unit.
This report presents a comprehensive overview, market shares, and growth opportunities of Data Center Cooling Unit market by product type, application, key players and key regions and countries.
Segmentation by Type:
Air Cooled
Liquid Cooled
Other
Segmentation by Equipment:
Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU)
Computer Room Air Conditioner
Chillers
Other
Segmentation by Power:
High Power
Low Power
Segmentation by Application:
Small and Medium-sized Data Center
Large Data Center
Ultra-large Data Center
This report also splits the market by region:
Americas
United States
Canada
Mexico
Brazil
APAC
China
Japan
Korea
Southeast Asia
India
Australia
Europe
Germany
France
UK
Italy
Russia
Middle East & Africa
Egypt
South Africa
Israel
Turkey
GCC Countries
The below companies that are profiled have been selected based on inputs gathered from primary experts and analyzing the company's coverage, product portfolio, its market penetration.
Vertiv
Stulz
Envicool
Schneider Electric
Rittal
Mitsubishi Electric
Shenling
YMK
Huawei
Canatal
iTeaq
Airsys
Airedale
Please note: The report will take approximately 2 business days to prepare and deliver.
Table of Contents
118 Pages
- *This is a tentative TOC and the final deliverable is subject to change.*
- 1 Scope of the Report
- 2 Executive Summary
- 3 Data Center Cooling Unit Market Size by Player
- 4 Data Center Cooling Unit by Region
- 5 Americas
- 6 APAC
- 7 Europe
- 8 Middle East & Africa
- 9 Market Drivers, Challenges and Trends
- 10 Global Data Center Cooling Unit Market Forecast
- 11 Key Players Analysis
- 12 Research Findings and Conclusion
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