DDC Solutions, part of Daikin Applied, opened an AI Cooling Showcase at ScaleMatrix in San Diego demonstrating a fully i
DDC Solutions announced the opening of the AI Cooling Showcase at ScaleMatrix in San Diego on August 4, 2026, giving data center customers the opportunity to experience a complete, integrated cooling architecture operating under live, high-density GPU workloads. As the operating entity for the Showcase, DDC Solutions manages the customer visit program, architecture briefings, and customizable training curriculum on behalf of the Daikin Applied group.
The Showcase brings together complementary capabilities across the Daikin Applied portfolio: facility-level chiller infrastructure from Daikin Applied, rack containment and airside thermal management from DDC Solutions, and direct-to-chip liquid cooling from Chilldyne. Together, these technologies address the full thermal challenge from the chiller plant to the chip. Cirrascale Cloud Services, a leading neocloud provider and anchor tenant at the facility, runs active client AI workloads on the infrastructure, allowing prospective customers, partners, and existing accounts to observe and validate the architecture under real load rather than staged conditions.
The integrated architecture addresses distinct but interdependent layers of thermal management. Daikin Applied handles the chiller plant and facility-level cooling; DDC manages the airside environment at the rack, including physical containment, fire suppression and DCIM monitoring; and Chilldyne's negative-pressure CDU captures heat directly at the GPU die. According to Keith Markley, Chief Executive Officer of DDC Solutions, "This Showcase is built to give infrastructure buyers a real answer before they commit. The combination of Daikin Applied's facility-level chiller infrastructure, DDC's rack containment and Chilldyne's negative-pressure CDU is the most complete asset protection and cooling architecture available for high-density AI deployments."
Modern AI workloads generate heat that no single cooling technology can fully address alone. Direct-to-chip liquid cooling captures most heat at the processor level, but a meaningful portion of thermal load from power distribution, storage, networking and chassis components remains airside and must be managed separately. The Showcase runs a rack-contained, hybrid cooling architecture under live GPU load, allowing customers to observe the complete thermal solution operating under real conditions.
At the densities AI workloads require, a cooling failure can put millions of dollars in GPU infrastructure at risk. The integrated Daikin Applied architecture addresses this at multiple layers simultaneously, protecting infrastructure at the facility, rack, and chip levels rather than relying on a single system to prevent a multi-million-dollar loss event.
In addition to the physical showcase, DDC offers a structured onsite training course as part of every scheduled visit. The course covers hybrid cooling architecture design, failure mode analysis across airside and liquid cooling systems, asset protection strategies and infrastructure planning for next-generation GPU density. The training is appropriate for data center owners, operators, and infrastructure architects evaluating cooling strategies for current or planned deployments.
The AI Cooling Showcase is open for scheduled visits to qualified customers, prospects, and partners. Visits include a facility walkthrough, live workload observation under real GPU load, and a full architecture briefing covering the Daikin cooling stack. Interested parties can request a visit by completing a form at www.ddcsolutions.com/ai-cooling-showcase.