Johnson Controls Reference Designs

Global Reference Design Guides for your AI Factories cooling needs

Johnson Controls is privileged to collaborate with leading industry partners to publish a series of Global Reference Design Guides. Focused on the emerging class of AI Factories, these guides outline how to build high-performance, scalable facilities through a rigorous Thermal Management lens.

Our Reference Guide (402) helps you plan and design a water-cooled chiller plant capable of serving a full 1 Gigawatt AI factory.

What’s included:

Outline of a comprehensive water-based cooling architecture
Guide and sizing references for 220 MW compute clusters
Recommended design temperatures and operating conditions for each stage of thermal chain – from chip level heat capture to final atmospheric rejection

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Design Guide

401: Air-cooled chiller plant for 1GW AI Factory

Full technical blueprint that outlines how to plan and design an air-cooled chiller plant capable of serving a full 1GW AI Factory. With this approach, the design can deliver critical outcomes including:

Water-free heat rejection
Scalable air-cooled architectures
Thermal flexibility for next-gen GPUs

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402: Water-cooled chiller plant for 1GW AI Factory

Full technical blueprint for a water-cooled chiller plant that can serve a full 1GW AI Factory to deliver the following critical outcomes:

Zero water usage in cooling
Future-ready for high-temp loops
Optimized for AI workloads

Download Reference Design Guide 402

403: Water-cooled chiller plant for 1GW AI Factory

Full technical blueprint for a water-cooled chiller plant that can serve a full 1GW AI Factory to deliver the following critical outcomes:

Zero water usage in cooling
Future-ready for high-temp loops
Optimized for AI workloads

Download Reference Design Guide 402

404: Water-cooled chiller plant for 1GW AI Factory

Full technical blueprint for a water-cooled chiller plant that can serve a full 1GW AI Factory to deliver the following critical outcomes:

Zero water usage in cooling
Future-ready for high-temp loops
Optimized for AI workloads

Download Reference Design Guide 404

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