Data Center Cooling

Omen AI buys rival Aquatic Labs for $16 million to build combined water sensor

Omen AI, which makes real-time sensors to monitor data-center cooling fluids, has acquired competitor Aquatic Labs in a $16 million cash-and-stock deal. The merger follows Omen's $31 million Series A raised in June, and brings together Omen's elemental water sensors with Aquatic Labs' alkalinity-testing technology. Aquatic Labs CEO Allan Adams will become Omen's chief science officer as the teams work to integrate both sensing approaches into a single device.

techcrunch.com · 2026-11-02

Data centre industry weighs replacing copper wiring with optical connections

Digital Realty's chief technology officer Chris Sharp says the data centre industry is moving away from copper for internal networking, though not electrical power or cooling systems. A typical 100MW facility uses around 400 tonnes of copper overall, with up to 20 tonnes used specifically in the wiring that connects servers together. Sharp argues this copper wiring between GPUs and CPUs is now a bottleneck limiting performance.

bbc.co.uk · 2026-09-22