Johnson Controls, a prominent company in smart, healthy, as well as sustainable buildings, has expanded its data center thermal management offerings with the launch of its Silent-Aire™ Chilled Door Units (CDUs). These units are manufactured to meet the increasing demands of high-density data centers. The announcement was made on September 8, 2025, and the company is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
This latest advance in technology to Johnson Controls’ end-to-end thermal management portfolio enables data centers to seamlessly transition to liquid cooling as rack densities rise.
The Silent-Aire CDUs will deliver a broad range of scalable cooling capacities from 500 kW to over 10 MW in flexible designs that are uniquely tailored to suit the needs of any data center deployment.
The company’s solutions aim to reduce non-IT energy consumption by more than 50% in most North American data center hubs.
Johnson Controls has expanded its data center thermal management offerings with the launch of its Silent-Aire Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU) platform.
Executive Statement
According to Austin Domenici, Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Solutions at Johnson Controls, the launch of this expanded series of CDU technology marks a pivotal step in their commitment to advance data center cooling, from chip to chiller. By collaborating with leading ecosystem players in the hyperscale, colocation, and semiconductor industries, they have engineered an innovative and scalable platform that meets the demands of next-generation AI training and inference hardware, delivering consistent performance and reinforcing our role as a strategic partner to data center professionals scaling for the digital economy.