Modular and liquid-cooled AI infrastructure led the day, much of it tied to NVIDIA's GTC Berlin. Crusoe announced support for NVIDIA's DSX POD design and introduced Crusoe Spark Liquid, while Polar Data Centers expanded its Crusoe partnership in Norway with a planned 40 MW phase and Vertiv modelled faster AI factory deployment. Other releases covered STTGDC hosting up to 9,000 Neysa GPUs at STT Noida 2, Equinix's liquid cooling innovation centers and Vantage securing more than 1 GW of Heron Power Electronics transformer capacity.
Wednesday 21 October 2026 (America/Los_Angeles source-local date) · 7 releases · MediaRelease.co editorial digest
India-based AI cloud company Neysa has selected STTGDC’s STT Noida 2 data centre to host GPU infrastructure and its Velocis AI cloud platform. The first phase of the multi-year relationship will support up to 9,000 GPUs for high-density AI training and inference and is expected to go live from the first quarter of calendar 2027. The deployment is aimed at production AI workloads requiring data residency in India.
Crusoe says its Crusoe Spark modular AI data center platform will support NVIDIA’s new DSX POD reference design for modular NVIDIA Vera Rubin deployments. Crusoe has built and operated modular data centers since 2020 and plans mass production at its 352,000-square-foot Spark factory in Brighton, Colorado. Head of Spark Bryan Schramm said the company can deliver productive AI capacity in as little as three months.
Vertiv and NVIDIA introduced an AI factory approach at NVIDIA GTC Berlin that pairs pre-engineered, virtually validated reference designs with factory-built power and cooling infrastructure. In Vertiv’s modeled scenario, design and deployment stages fall from about 120 days to 48, bringing capacity online roughly 10 weeks sooner and yielding up to 30% more token output in the first year. Polar Data Centers is applying the approach to the first 41 MW phase of its Herøya, Norway campus.
Crusoe has introduced Crusoe Spark Liquid, the sixth generation of its prefabricated modular AI data center. Each unit supports up to 3.5 MW of compute using closed-loop, non-evaporative direct liquid cooling, a fivefold density increase over earlier generations, and is built for NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 and Vera Rubin NVL72 systems. Production will join existing Spark manufacturing at Crusoe’s Brighton, Colorado factory in 2027. Ollama is cited as a current Spark customer.
Equinix has launched Enhanced Performance Innovation Centers (EPIC), a network of production-ready liquid cooling environments inside live Equinix data centers. Enterprises can trial liquid-cooled GPU and CPU platforms with hardware partners and test AI training and inference workloads before scaling. EPIC is live in Frankfurt, London, Osaka, Paris and Sydney, with more locations expected in 2027. Criteo is cited as a customer that tested liquid cooling with Equinix before scaling.
Polar Data Centers is expanding its partnership with Crusoe at its hydro-powered campus in Tørdal, Norway. The first facility, DRA01, is now live with 12 MW of IT capacity supporting Crusoe Cloud. A second phase, DRA02, is planned to add 40 MW of liquid-cooled IT capacity and go live in late 2027, where Crusoe plans to deploy NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems.
Vantage has secured more than 1 GW of manufacturing capacity for Heron Power Electronics’ Heron Link solid-state transformer to deploy across its hyperscale data center campuses. Heron Link converts medium-voltage grid power directly to 800-volt direct current with integrated energy storage, targeting more than 98.5% efficiency. The companies say the design cuts conversion stages and equipment compared with 480 VAC systems and supports megawatt-class AI rack densities.
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