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IIT Bombay and Vertiv have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at advancing cooling solutions for AI-driven computing workloads in datacentres, an increasingly critical area as India accelerates its digital and technological progress. This collaboration builds on Vertiv’s existing partnerships across various educational institutes and IITs across the country where we are developing the skilled workforce required for the operation and maintenance of datacentres and helping the industry bridge its talent gap. As AI reshapes industries ranging from healthcare and manufacturing to financial services and urban development, the demand for dependable, high-performance computing infrastructure has increased significantly. Managing this surge requires fresh thinking, strong engineering foundations; and collaborative innovation between industry and academia.
This partnership between Vertiv and IIT Bombay draws on the strengths of both institutions to address emerging challenges and prepare the next generation of engineers for the evolving digital landscape. Formalizing the initiative, the Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Prof Shireesh Kedare, Director of IIT Bombay; and Subhasis Majumdar, MD, Vertiv India, reinforcing a shared commitment to advancing India’s technological capabilities in line with the nation’s Make in India and Aatmanirbhar Bharat vision.
Speaking about the collaboration, Dr AS Prasad, VP, Product Management and Engineering, Vertiv said, “At Vertiv, we design and deliver critical power and cooling infrastructure for some of the world’s largest datacentres and telecom networks. With decades of real-world experience keeping mission-critical systems running 24×7 across 130+ countries, we are happy to collaborate closely with Professor MV Rane from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay, one of India’s foremost experts in refrigeration and thermal systems. By combining his IIT Bombay’s deep scientific insights with Vertiv’s global engineering expertise and our real-time learnings from thousands of operating data centers, this collaboration will help prepare the next generation to be better equipped with industry-relevant knowledge. This is how we ensure that tomorrow’s thermal engineers, datacentre architects and technology leaders carry both academic excellence and industry intuition in their DNA.”
Commenting on the partnership, Prof Shireesh Kedare, Director of IIT Bombay said, “Our collaboration with Vertiv enables us to take research from labs to solutions with direct industrial relevance. As AI and high-performance computing systems evolve, there is a pressing need for approaches that are both technically robust and future ready. This initiative provides our students and researchers with an opportunity to work at the intersection of innovation and real-world application. Because when industry brings real-world experience and academia brings fearless curiosity, the result is always greater than the sum of its parts.”
The technology being used in the current project collaboration is IIT Bombay’s Rotating Contacting Disk (RCD) system. It has substantially lower air-side pressure drops than conventional pad-type precoolers—reducing fan power and noise while improving Water Utilisation Efficiency. It enables higher cycles of concentration and opens up the possibility to use recycled water or even seawater. IIT Bombay’s patented RCD technology, developed under Prof M V Rane is already licensed for Wastewater Vapourisation and CO₂ Scrubbing. It has also been demonstrated as an energy efficient cooling tower with diverse applications, delivering up to 4× energy savings in fan power while delivering better approach.
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