Vertiv ranks 20 on the AI Infra 100 with a score of 96; Alfa Laval ranks 62 with 89. Vertiv is ahead on commercials, positioning and leverage. Level on deployment, production, progress, technology and firepower. Alfa Laval is based in Lund, Sweden, Vertiv in Westerville, United States. Alfa Laval is named in 0 signals and Vertiv in 186.
Alfa Laval sells FreeWaterLoop cooling systems and brazed plate heat exchangers to data center operators and cooling-system manufacturers serving AI infrastructure.
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Alfa Laval is the heat exchanger inside other people's cooling products, and 2026 is the year it stopped being only that. Founded 1883, it runs more than 30 manufacturing sites with 22,000 employees and has worked in data centers for 20 years, initially supplying large gasketed plate heat exchangers for evaporative and free cooling, with brazed plate units in chillers, heat pumps and heat reuse. It entered the white space in 2022 with compact brazed plate heat exchangers for CDUs, its first project a US crypto mining single-phase immersion system, and has since followed the shift toward single-phase direct-to-chip. It supplies heat exchangers for CDUs at 2.3 to 2.5 MW, including the custom brazed plate unit at the core of Boyd's ROL2300 CDU. Two 2026 moves matter: in February a multi-year investment to double production capacity at Richmond, Virginia by mid-2028, a direct response to anticipated supply constraints; and on 2026-03-04 at Data Centre World London it launched FreeWaterLoop, an integrated external facility-loop cooling system combining pump engineering, heat exchangers and filtration, moving it from component supplier to system vendor. Commercial scores 3 because no data center revenue is disclosed at any level.
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Vertiv supplies data-center cooling, including liquid cooling, chillers and cooling distribution units, for high-density AI and HPC data centers.
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The pure-play supplier of data-center power distribution and thermal management (rack power, UPS, liquid and hybrid cooling, prefabricated modules); the cleanest read on how fast AI capacity is being physically fitted out.
186 signals name Vertiv.
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Vertiv ranks 20 on the AI Infra 100 with a score of 96; Alfa Laval ranks 62 with 89. Vertiv is ahead on commercials, positioning and leverage. Level on deployment, production, progress, technology and firepower. Alfa Laval is based in Lund, Sweden, Vertiv in Westerville, United States. Alfa Laval is named in 0 signals and Vertiv in 186.
Vertiv ranks 20 on the AI Infra 100 with a score of 96; Alfa Laval ranks 62 with 89. Vertiv is ahead on commercials, positioning and leverage. Level on deployment, production, progress, technology and firepower. Alfa Laval is based in Lund, Sweden, Vertiv in Westerville, United States. Alfa Laval is named in 0 signals and Vertiv in 186. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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