{"city":"Cork","name":"Johnson Controls","slug":"johnson-controls","facts":[{"date":"2026-09-15","type":"ownership_change","value":"controlled_by: public float","source":"www.prnewswire.com — 2026-09-15"},{"date":"2026-09-15","type":"product_launch","value":"Johnson Controls launches high-temperature heat pumps for industrial electrification","source":"www.prnewswire.com — 2026-09-15"},{"date":"2026-09-15","type":"product_launch","value":"High-temperature heat pumps for industrial electrification","source":"www.prnewswire.com — 2026-09-15"},{"date":"2026-07-31","type":"product_launch","value":"Absorption chiller reference design for AI factories","source":"finance.biggo.com"},{"date":"2026-07-29","type":"revenue","value":"Revenue","source":"investing.com and SEC filings"},{"date":"2026-07-29","type":"revenue","value":"Organic sales","source":"investing.com and SEC filings"}],"peers":[{"name":"Vertiv","rank":20,"slug":"vertiv","score":"96"},{"name":"Schneider Electric","rank":53,"slug":"schneider-electric","score":"90"},{"name":"Trane Technologies","rank":61,"slug":"trane-technologies","score":"89"},{"name":"Alfa Laval","rank":62,"slug":"alfa-laval","score":"89"},{"name":"LG Electronics","rank":68,"slug":"lg-electronics","score":"88"},{"name":"Corintis","rank":76,"slug":"corintis","score":"87"}],"stage":null,"state":null,"aliases":["Johnson Controls International plc","JCI","YORK"],"country":"Ireland","domains":[{"why":"Johnson Controls supplies YORK chillers, absorption chillers, cooling distribution units and high-temperature heat pumps, including products designed for high-density AI data centers and industrial electrification.","list":"AI Infra 100","rank":66,"tier":"member","layer":"Power, cooling & thermal","total":88,"domain":"AI Core","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":10,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":10,"commercial":10,"deployment":8,"production":8,"technology":8},"edition":"November 2026","segment":"Cooling & thermal"}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-09-06","header":"MarketsandMarkets projects the global data-center air-handling unit market will reach $6.7 billion by 2032.","outlet":"Automation News Japan"},{"date":"2026-07-07","header":"Omen AI raised $31 million in a Series A funding round.","outlet":"The AI Insider"},{"date":"2026-06-29","header":"Omen AI raised a $31 million Series A to develop data-center fluid monitoring.","outlet":"TechCrunch"},{"date":"2026-02-04","header":"York ended its protest of Apex Space’s SBIR contract award.","outlet":"Payload"},{"date":"2026-02-04","header":"York went public on the NYSE in January 2026.","outlet":"Payload"}],"website":"johnsoncontrols.com","category":"AI Infra · Power, cooling & thermal","categories":[{"name":"Cooling & thermal","domain":"AI Core","parent":"AI Infra · Power, cooling & thermal"},{"name":"Corporate & strategic venture","domain":"Investment Houses","parent":"Institutional & Funds"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-09-22T22:30:12.87+00:00","facts_total":24,"positioning":"Johnson Controls is no longer a building-automation company with a data center side business. Data center revenue is a high-teens percentage of fiscal 2026 sales and the CFO has said it could reach roughly one-third of total company revenue within three to five years. Fiscal Q3 2026 organic sales rose 10 percent to USD 6.6 billion with Applied HVAC posting high-teens growth driven by data center cooling; adjusted segment EBITA margin widened 220 basis points to 19.8 percent; backlog reached a record USD 21 billion, up more than 30 percent, with Americas orders up 37 percent. The technical position rests on two things: NVIDIA certification for its cooling distribution units, with a pipeline above USD 1 billion and shipments beginning, plus a jointly developed AI-factory thermal reference guide; and an absorption chiller reference design the company says cuts cooling electrical demand by approximately 44 percent at a 1 gigawatt AI factory by converting waste heat into cooling, unlocking 97 megawatts of additional compute capacity, which changes site selection economics for hyperscalers. It released the YORK YK-HT two-stage economized centrifugal chiller and exited residential HVAC to focus the portfolio. Its relevance doubles because it led the Accelsius USD 65 million Series B on 2026-01-12, putting it on both sides of the two-phase versus single-phase question.","sub_category":null,"signals_total":5,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/johnson-controls","title":"Johnson Controls · ai core, Cork, Ireland · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Johnson Controls supplies YORK chillers, absorption chillers, cooling distribution units and high-temperature heat pumps, including products designed for high-density AI data centers and industrial electrification. AI Infra 100 rank 66 (score 88) 5 signals and 24 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}