LG Electronics Joins NVIDIA Partner Network to Expand AI Data Center Cooling Business
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LG Electronics has been officially listed as a partner in the "Power and Cooling" category of NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN).
With this listing, LG Electronics will broaden touchpoints to propose cooling solutions such as chillers and cooling distribution units (CDUs).
LG Electronics has met NVIDIA Qualification requirements for 600kW and 1MW-class CDUs, and has also obtained NVIDIA AI factory qualification for a 2.5MW-class high-capacity CDU.
LG Electronics said it has joined NVIDIA's official partner program, accelerating its push into the global AI data center cooling solutions market. On the 27th, LG Electronics announced that it had been officially listed as a partner in the "Power and Cooling" category of the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN) as a Preferred partner.
NPN is a global partner program built around NVIDIA's AI computing platform and technology ecosystem. It includes companies across a wide range of fields, including hardware, software, services, and infrastructure. NVIDIA connects customers with verified partners and solutions needed to build AI data centers and AI factories. Through this, partners can secure technology collaboration, sales opportunities, and marketing support, and expand their touchpoints with global customers.
Within this structure, LG Electronics will be able to speed up its push into the global AI data center cooling solutions market.
With this partner listing, LG Electronics will expand the opportunities to propose cooling solutions such as chillers and cooling distribution units (CDUs) to global customers building AI data centers based on LG Electronics and NVIDIA technology. This will broaden its touchpoints with customers using NVIDIA-based AI data centers.
As a result, LG Electronics' cooling solutions are more likely to be considered in the early stages of AI data center planning and design. Based on this, LG Electronics expects to expand business opportunities in the global AI data center cooling market.
LG Electronics was the first Korean company to meet NVIDIA's Qualification requirements for 600kW and 1MW-class CDUs. By meeting these requirements, it has proven its cooling technology capabilities, and more recently it obtained NVIDIA AI factory qualification for a 2.5MW-class high-capacity CDU. This 2.5MW-class high-capacity CDU was officially recognized as a DSX Ready CDU.
Based on this track record, LG Electronics has secured credibility as an NPN partner and also holds the competitiveness of NVIDIA-qualified products. Accordingly, LG Electronics is expected to strengthen its competitiveness in bids for large-scale MW-class AI data center projects.
Based on the fact that more than 60% of new data center expansion demand worldwide is concentrated in North America, LG Electronics is aiming to expand in the North American market. At the same time, it is also pursuing expansion in the hyperscaler market of ultra-large cloud providers and in the colocation market of data center leasing operators.
To respond to AI data centers, LG Electronics is expanding its portfolio of cooling technologies for high-density, high-heat environments. LG Electronics entered the data center cooling market in 2011, and its existing build capabilities have centered on large air-cooled chillers and large water-cooled chillers.
Recently, LG Electronics developed a direct-cooling liquid cooling solution for high-heat AI server chips to improve cooling efficiency. Accordingly, it has built a Chip to Chiller lineup consisting of chillers, CDUs, and cold plates. The chiller produces cooling water, the CDU precisely distributes the cooling water, and the cold plate directly absorbs heat from the chip.
LG Electronics is also pursuing reliability for AI data center infrastructure as a target application. To that end, it is also pursuing power redundancy and ultra-precise temperature control technology at the ±0.25°C level.
Lee Jae-seong, head of LG Electronics' ES Business Division, explained the significance of being listed in the NVIDIA Partner Network and said that the listing proves LG Electronics' thermal management technology is an optimal solution for next-generation AI data center infrastructure and is a meaningful achievement in the global market.
Source: TECHWORLD · Park Gyu-chan
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=407384
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