Motivair by Schneider Electric — an innovator in liquid cooling technology for digital infrastructure — has two new coolant distribution units (CDUs) that are engineered to meet the thermal demands of high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads.
These CDUs are reportedly the first new products that have been unveiled since Schneider Electric’s acquisition of Motivair in February 2025.
As the company’s first purpose-built CDUs for optimised installation in utility corridors, it offers data centre operators enhanced flexibility, performance, and integration across a wider range of deployments.
The new CDUs — the MCDU-45 and MCDU-55 — are now available globally, with production ramping up in early 2026. Both provide wider cooling capacities, features, and design conditions, allowing operators to leverage a wider range of chilled water temperatures to optimise deployment and operations.
With the addition of these new CDUs to its end-to-end liquid cooling portfolio, Motivair by Schneider Electric offers additional floor mounted CDUs and in-rack units, tailored to enable enhanced cooling strategies for hyperscale, AI, colocation, edge, and retrofit environments.
Benefits of the MCDU-45 and MCDU-55
The new CDUs are designed to reflect the evolution of liquid cooling and match changing infrastructure deployments. Customers are increasingly deploying CDUs in areas outside of the white space.
Having a full range of CDU deployment options allows operators to tailor cooling strategies to their specific AI infrastructure, data centre design, and workload demands to achieve optimal thermal performance and operational resilience as compute densities continue to rise.
Both MCDU-45 and MCDU-55 have new and existing CDU options, which give operators greater flexibility to choose the right model that meets their specific deployment goals.
The CDUs feature wider operating ranges, enabling heat rejection systems to unlock energy efficiency and improve power usage effectiveness (PUE). Additionally, the models also have diverse placement of CDUs which improves flexibility for service access without disrupting AI workload or IT operations.
Finally, MCDU-25 through MCDU60 models supports advanced thermal management strategies with precise flow control, real-time monitoring, and adaptive load balancing for optimised plant performance and reduced energy consumption.
“When it comes to data centre liquid cooling, flexibility is the key with customers demanding a more diverse and larger portfolio of end-to-end solutions,” said Andrew Bradner, senior vice-president, cooling business at Schneider Electric.
“Our new CDUs allow customers to match deployment strategies to a wider range of accelerated computing applications while leveraging decades of specialised cooling experience to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and future-readiness.”