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Cooling Without Water Chillers

An HVAC Minute Video Update: February 5, 2026

Chris Gray

February 5, 2026

Stocks for major HVAC companies fell with claims of a new system that can be cooled with no water chillers.

Nvidia’s Vera Rubin Has Chilling Effect on HVAC Industry

Rapid development of AI technology could impact HVAC’s role in data centers

Chris Gray

January 9, 2026

When Nvidia’s CEO said the company’s latest AI system could be cooled with hot water and no chillers, investors reacted quickly. Shares of several HVAC manufacturers fell sharply, underscoring how closely tied the industry’s growth has become to data center cooling assumptions.

What’s Hot in Commercial Chillers

A new generation of commercial chillers use lower-GWP refrigerants, and some provide heating as well

Matt Jachman

April 1, 2025

Refrigerant regulations apply to chillers as well as to residential HVAC products, and manufacturers have come up with versatile, efficient, and connected equipment.

Seasonal Layup vs. Mothballing: Key Differences You Need to Know

Scott Bryan

March 15, 2025

Boilers and cooling towers often go offline, but the way you prepare them makes all the difference.

Preparing For Emerging Cybersecurity Attacks Against Chillers

What Protocols Need to be in Place For When Malicious Actors Come Knocking

Dylan Kurt

November 11, 2024

When it comes to this piece of critical infrastructure, operators need to be prepared to face new and sophisticated attacks.

A Capital Cost and Energy Saving Approach to Chilled Water HVAC with Zero Emissions Potential

August 9, 2024

The proposed new approach to chilled water HVAC systems promises to provide significant capital cost savings, energy cost savings, and a path to eliminate CO₂ emissions.

Don’t Let the Massive Emergence of Cicadas Bug Your Cooling Tower Performance

Goodway Technologies offers best practices for keeping cooling towers clean

May 8, 2024

With a double brood of cicadas forecasted to awaken, now is the time to prepare for how to deal with the mess they will leave behind and the potential damage they can do to equipment.

Changes in Chiller Use

Versatile chillers offer efficiencies, but their uses bring new challenges as well

Matt Jachman

April 10, 2024

Chillers are being used as heat pumps, outfitted with heat-recovery systems, used in building electrification projects, and installed in arrays to cool data centers.

HDPE Cooling Tower Makes the Grade

Delta Cooling Towers’ TM Series 310-ton HDPE cooling tower features a modular, seamless, engineered-plastic leak-proof design

Greg Rankin

December 2, 2023

A North Carolina-based community college replaces an aging metal-clad cooling tower with a modern HDPE unit, reducing maintenance spending while increasing efficiency.

How Low-Temperature Absorption Chillers Can Optimize Food and Beverage Processing

Have you ever considered the carbon footprint of a cookie or maybe your mid-afternoon latte?

Dmitrij Gorlovsky

October 13, 2023

By splitting the absorption process into two steps, lithium bromide solution concentrations are lower in the system, enabling lower hot water temperatures within the generator, lower hot water flow rates, and the elimination of crystallization risk within the chiller.