Modelon Expands Data Center Library for AI Cooling
October 22, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) workloads are reshaping data center design. Higher rack power densities, new cooling architectures, and increasing efficiency demands are driving the need for better ways to evaluate performance long before systems are deployed. To help engineering teams navigate this transition, Modelon has expanded its Data Center Library for Modelon Impact with new capabilities […]
Can Waste Heat Cool a Data Center? What Resalta’s Simulation Reveals
October 20, 2026
Cooling is one of the biggest levers data center operators have for cutting electricity use, and one of the hardest to get right when power and cooling are designed as a single system. In our new case study, European energy services company Resalta used Modelon Impact to test a bold idea: run a data center […]
Modelon and SimetrixDT Expand Access to Data Center Simulation in Australia and New Zealand
October 15, 2026
The data center industry across Australia and New Zealand is entering a period of rapid growth. As AI adoption accelerates, power densities rise, and sustainability requirements become more demanding, operators and engineering teams face increasing pressure to design, validate, and optimize facilities faster than ever before. To meet these challenges, simulation is becoming an essential […]
Introducing Productivity Packages for Modelon Impact
September 17, 2026
Turn simulation results into decisions faster with up to 12x greater performance. Simulation creates value when it helps an engineering team answer better questions sooner. But as models grow and studies expand, computing resources can become the constraint. Engineers wait for runs to finish, schedule large experiments around available capacity, or spend time managing storage […]
Data Center Chiller Setpoint Optimization Using AI and Physics-Based Simulation
September 1, 2026
We gave the agentic AI assistant three parametric simulations of a 1 MW data center cooling plant and asked it to find the chiller setpoint that would cut energy use without breaching thermal safety limits. Here’s how it caught a problem the numbers alone would have missed. Every data center cooling plant with a waterside economizer faces […]
From Performance Curve to Trusted Model
August 21, 2026
To simulate a full data center, you need trustworthy component models. Vendors give you performance curves. Here’s how to turn one into the other. Hyperscalers, commissioning engineers, and cooling vendors are all trying to build the same thing: a system model of a full data center that behaves like the real one. A digital twin, […]
Where OpenUSD Digital Twins Meet Working Physics
July 29, 2026
An OpenUSD asset says what a coolant distribution unit is. A physics model says how it behaves—this is the bridge between them, walked end-to-end by an AI agent. Picture a steel cabinet the size of a wardrobe, tucked into a row of AI servers, with two separate water loops threading through it—one tied to the […]
Smarter Defrost Modeling for Heat Pump and Refrigeration Systems
July 6, 2026
New Modelon research to be shared at the 2026 Herrick Conferences at Purdue University For simulation and thermal engineers working on heat pumps, refrigeration systems, HVAC&R equipment, and thermal management for energy-intensive facilities, frost is more than an operating nuisance. It is a system-level performance problem. When frost builds on a coil, it changes heat […]
From AI Guidance to Agentic Simulation in Modelon Impact
June 24, 2026
Modelon’s enhanced AI Assistant now helps engineers analyze models, launch simulations, and accelerate engineering workflows directly within the Modelon Impact platform. ▶️ Watch how it works! When we introduced the AI Assistant in Modelon Impact, the goal was simple: help engineers get answers faster, troubleshoot issues more easily, and reduce the friction that often slows […]
Why CFD is the Wrong Tool for the Next Generation of Liquid-Cooled AI Data Centers
June 23, 2026
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been the workhorse of data center thermal design for two decades. For the AI data centers now coming online, it is the wrong tool. That is not an indictment of CFD; it remains a powerful, mature technology. It is a consequence of how radically the cooling problem has changed. The […]