CoolIT Systems: Pioneers in Liquid Cooling Technology and History

Highlights

Pioneering Liquid Cooling Solutions for over 25 years

CoolIT Systems was founded with a vision to revolutionize thermal management through innovative liquid cooling solutions. Over the years, the company has grown from a pioneering startup to a global leader in data center cooling technology.

Early CoolIT Systems lab workspace with prototype cooling hardware

2001

CoolIT Systems is founded. Our initial products are liquid cooling systems for gaming PCs.

A studio shot of a rectangular copper cooling plate with four corner mounting screws and an intricate internal micro-channel texture visible in the center.

2009

CoolIT is awarded a patent for our SplifFlow™ coldplate design - reflecting continuing innovation. First coldplates designed for NVIDIA and ATI (now AMD) graphics cards are shipped.

A black rack-mounted industrial unit featuring a small blue digital control screen on the front left panel and white text identifying it as a Rack DCLC CHx40.

2012

CoolIT shifts its focus to data centers. Introduces direct liquid-cooled (DLC) servers and first rack-based coolant distribution units (CDUs).

Close-up of enterprise server front panel in data centre rack

2013

CoolIT develops first coldplate optimized for Intel Xeon data center processors. Our direct liquid cooling (DLC) technology cools the UNVL Cherry Creek supercomputer.

2015

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) project begins with CoolIT, developing new data center cooling products.

Server internal view with coldplates and coolant routing for high-density AI workloads.

2016

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) offers Apollo 2000 high-density, rack-scale HPC servers with an integrated CoolIT DLC option.

2017

Dell EMC (now Dell Technologies) begins selling PowerEdge servers with factory-installed DLC from CoolIT. CoolIT is used in HPC clusters exceeding 30,000 nodes.

Liquid cooling loop layout showing supply and return paths for direct liquid cooling systems.

2022

CoolIT liquid cooling technology enables Frontier, the world’s first exascale system and 100% fanless direct liquid-cooled design.

KKR and Mubadala corporate partner logos on white background.

2023

KKR and Mubadala acquire CoolIT, providing strategic and financial backing to fuel rapid buildout and growth.

Large-scale manufacturing floor assembling coolant distribution units and liquid cooling systems.

2024

CoolIT massively expands global manufacturing to meet AI-driven surge in liquid cooling demand, and launches a new line of megawatt-class CDUs and the next-generation OMNI™ all-metal coldplate architecture.

Frontier supercomputer racks using direct liquid cooling technology

2025

Today, we supply our modular liquid cooling products to most of the world's top technology companies.