OCP Global Summit 2026: nVent and AMD Collaborate on Cooling for AMD Helios Rackscale Solution

nVent and AMD announced a collaboration to bring rack-level cooling to the AMD Helios Rackscale solution. The joint effort pairs nVent’s data center cooling expertise with AMD Helios to help operators deploy AI capacity at scale.This will add nVent rear door heat exchanger (RDHx) as part of the fully integrated AMD Helios AI infrastructure platform that includes AMD Instinct graphical processing units (GPUs), EPYC central processing units (CPUs), Pensando networking technologies, and the AMD ROCm open software stack. nVent unveiled a first look at the OCP Global Summit.

“This collaboration brings nVen’s cooling expertise to one of the leading AI platforms in the industry,” said Eric Osborn, VP and GM, data solutions, cooling & power, nVent. “We are designing for the platforms our customers are building on, and working closely with AMD is how we make sure the fit is right.”

nVent’s DC-powered RDHx is an industry-first dual rear door, designed for the double-wide AMD Helios rack. It captures the heat that direct-to-chip liquid cooling leaves behind and returns cooled air to the space, keeping the rack effectively room-neutral. It is fully-integrated with the AMD Helios platform and offers intelligent cooling with no wasted watts, integrated air temperature, humidity sensors and differential pressure fan speed control. Additionally, its DC power matches how next-gen AI racks are powered. The result is a cooling solution that allows customers to start with a single rack and scale larger deployments over time.

“The rack, not any single component within it, has now become the unit of deployment; and compute, networking, software, power and cooling must operate as one system,” said Ravi Pendekanti, corporate VP, data center solutions business group, AMD. “AMD Helios brings those elements together in an open, standards-based architecture designed to help customers scale from a single rack to large AI factories with long-term flexibility. Our collaboration with nVent expands the cooling options available for AMD Helios, helping operators bring high-density AI infrastructure online across a broader range of data center environments.”

At the OCP Global Summit, nVent and AMD showed the RDHx for the first time on an Open Rack Wide (ORW) rack alongside the manifolds, bus bars, and power shelves of a Helios deployment, giving operators a first look at how the companies’ work comes together.