Vertiv Adds Solenis, Expands Dow Coolant Care for Liquid Cooling
Vertiv said on Oct. 27 it is adding Solenis and expanding its Dow pact to manage coolant health, flushing and leak detection in liquid-cooled AI data centers, with no pricing or regions.
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Vertiv's illustration of liquid-cooled racks served by a Liebert XDU; it is a product image, not a view of a site named in the announcement.
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Source · Press image from the Vertiv newsroom, used for news reporting.
Vertiv, the data-center power and cooling equipment maker, said on Oct. 27, 2026 that it is expanding its work with Dow and adding Solenis as a new partner to manage coolant, water and monitoring in liquid-cooled AI data centers.
The company calls the package a global ecosystem. It folds Dow's coolant technology and Solenis's water-treatment chemistry into Vertiv's own infrastructure, monitoring and service business, with Dow's work running through the Dow Coolant Care Network. Vertiv's pitch is that operators should run liquid cooling as one thermal system rather than as separate purchases of equipment, fluid and service.
Vertiv's Ron Bednar, senior vice president of Global and Americas Services, said in the release that managing thermal infrastructure, fluid health, monitoring and lifecycle service together should help operators improve efficiency and uptime, cut risk and extend equipment life. That is a company belief, not a measured result: the release publishes no efficiency, uptime or cost figure.
What the ecosystem covers
Vertiv lists six jobs: designing for compatibility across fluids, materials and components; engineered flushing, precision filling, commissioning and filtration; monitoring through its Next Predict analytics platform; early leak detection; analytics aimed at efficiency and water use; and managing fluid chemistry across the technical and facility water loops. Those are the two circuits a liquid-cooled hall depends on: the coolant that touches the cold plates, and the facility water that carries the heat out.
Vertiv's release lists six jobs spanning the technical and facility water loops; placement here is a simplified illustration, and the figures are the vendor's claims.
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Solenis described its role in a June 10, 2026 release, when it joined the Dow Coolant Care Network as an approved service provider. It said it would offer coolant-chemistry monitoring, predictive maintenance, corrosion, fouling and biofilm mitigation, and on-site and remote service for operators using Dow's DOWFROST LC and DOWFROST HD heat transfer fluids in direct-to-chip systems. Vertiv's October release does not name those fluids.
Why fluid care matters for cooling capacity
Coolant that degrades or fouls loses heat-transfer performance and can clog the narrow channels in cold plates, which is why flushing and filtration sit at the start of the list. For operators, the cost of that risk lands in uptime and in the water and energy spent keeping a loop clean. Vertiv's service page also lists PurgeRite NearZero, an offer meant to cut water discharged during flushing, but the October release does not mention it, and Vertiv has not said whether it is part of this ecosystem.
The announcement follows two other Vertiv items Voltgrid News covered on Oct. 28. Vertiv's SmartIT packages liquid cooling and power at rack level, and Vertiv's third-quarter results showed sales up 61.2%. This release is a services and fluid-management story, separate from both. A comparable chemistry tie-up elsewhere is the LG Uplus and Ecolab Korea liquid cooling MOU.
What is not confirmed yet
The release does not say in which regions the ecosystem is offered beyond calling it global, and it gives no price, availability date, named customer or service-level terms. It states no coolant specification, no rack density, no coolant temperature and no heat-removal figure. It does not say how Solenis's and Dow's services are contracted, whether through Vertiv or directly, or how many sites use them. Those details would show whether this is a working service line or a framework for one.
