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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