Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market Size, Share & Forecast to 2035

The Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market covers the coolant distribution manifolds that carry liquid from coolant distribution units (CDUs) to cold plates, immersion tanks and rear-door heat exchangers inside data centers: in-rack manifolds, row-based manifolds and facility-level technology cooling system (TCS) manifolds, valued with their integrated quick disconnects. DC Market Insights values the global Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market at USD 935.61 million in 2025 and forecasts USD 3.79 billion by 2035, a CAGR of 15.01%. The 2025 value is built from the build itself: about 4,150 MW of new liquid-cooled IT capacity at roughly USD 0.218 million of manifold content per MW gives USD 904.70 million, and replacement and expansion work on the installed liquid-cooled base adds USD 30.91 million. Two-phase direct-to-chip cooling is the fastest-growing technology segment at 28.77% a year because it handles the highest chip heat loads, and Asia Pacific is the fastest-growing region at 17.15% a year as China, India and Malaysia build liquid-cooled AI halls from the ground up.

Executive Summary

The Global Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market size was valued at USD 88.92 million in 2020, reached USD 935.61 million in 2025, and is anticipated to reach USD 3.79 billion by 2035, at a CAGR of 15.01% during the forecast period.

Report attribute	Details
Historical Period	2020-2024
Base Year	2025
Forecast Period	2026-2035
Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market Size 2025	USD 935.61 Million
Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market, CAGR	15.01%
Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market Size 2035	USD 3.79 Billion

DC Market Insights estimates that the market grew at 60.11% a year between 2020 and 2025, and that 2025 alone added 102.9% over 2024 as new liquid-cooled capacity more than doubled. Supermicro’s GB200 NVL72 rack, a rack-scale graphics processing unit (GPU) system, operates at 125 kW to 135 kW, and Supermicro’s DLC-2 design distributes coolant through vertical manifolds in the rack. Growth slows to 15.01% a year from 2025 to 2035 because rack density keeps rising: more compute per rack means fewer racks, and fewer manifolds, per MW, even as new liquid-cooled capacity grows from 4,150 MW in 2025 to 20,400 MW in 2035. The market passes USD 1.44 billion in 2026.

Market Scope: What Does the Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market Cover?

The Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market covers every manifold that splits, routes and collects coolant between the CDU and the IT equipment in a liquid-cooled data center, valued at first sale in current US dollars, with 2025 as the base year and forecasts to 2035. DC Market Insights sizes it at USD 935.61 million in 2025.

Included. In-rack manifolds (the vertical supply and return rails in each rack, with their quick disconnect ports), row-based manifolds (piping assemblies that feed a row of racks from a CDU), facility-level TCS manifolds and headers, the quick disconnects and blind-mate couplings mounted on those manifolds, and the valves, sensors, flow and cooling meters and brackets sold as part of a manifold assembly. Vertiv describes in-rack manifolds as “the final distribution point within each server rack” and row-based manifolds as piping assemblies that distribute coolant to the racks.

Excluded. CDUs, pumps, cold plates, immersion tanks, chillers, facility water piping outside the white space, coolant fluids and installation labor. These are covered in the Data Center Liquid Cooling Market report. Thermal simulation tools and software used to design cooling loops are also excluded.

How the segments fit together. Every split below re-cuts the same USD 935.61 million: by manifold type, cooling technology, data center type (including high-performance computing (HPC) and research centers), material, design and installation. The cross-section in the DC Exclusive section shows manifold type against data center type.

Market Drivers: What Drives the Liquid Cooling Manifold Market?

Rack-scale AI systems drawing 132 kW per rack drive the Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market. Two more drivers add to them: a rise in new liquid-cooled capacity from 4,150 MW to 20,400 MW a year, and open quick disconnect standards that let hyperscalers buy manifolds for distributing coolant from many suppliers.

AI Racks at 132 kW Make Every New GPU Rack a Manifold Buyer

The NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 is a fully liquid-cooled, rack-scale design that integrates 72 Blackwell Ultra GPUs, and Supermicro’s GB200 NVL72 rack carries eight 33 kW power shelves for a total of 132 kW. Supermicro’s DLC-2 design “utilizes vertical coolant distribution manifolds (CDMs)” and captures up to 98% of rack heat in liquid. DC Market Insights estimates the manifold content of a liquid-cooled hall at USD 0.218 million per MW in 2025, of which in-rack manifolds take 49.3%; at 132 kW per rack that is about USD 14,187 of in-rack manifold hardware per rack. Supermicro targeted capacity of up to 6,000 racks a month by its fiscal year 2026, including 3,000 racks a month optimized for direct liquid cooling.

New Liquid-Cooled Capacity Rises from 4,150 MW to 20,400 MW a Year

The Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market is a build market first: 96.7% of 2025 spending went into newly commissioned liquid-cooled capacity. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that data centers used about 415 TWh of electricity in 2024, around 1.5% of world consumption, and expects that to more than double to about 945 TWh by 2030. DC Market Insights models new liquid-cooled IT capacity rising from 4,150 MW in 2025 to 14,600 MW in 2030 and 20,400 MW in 2035, which lifts the installed liquid-cooled base from about 9.7 GW to about 155.6 GW.

Vertiv’s Backlog Doubles to USD 15.00 Billion as Thermal Orders Surge

Supplier order books show the demand. Vertiv reported fourth-quarter 2025 organic orders up about 252% on the prior year, a book-to-bill ratio of about 2.9 times and a backlog of USD 15.00 billion at the end of 2025, up 109% (Source: Vertiv filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission). In the second quarter of 2026 Vertiv’s net sales rose 24% to USD 3.27 billion, and the company expects full-year 2026 net sales of USD 14.00 billion with 31% organic growth. In November 2025 Vertiv agreed to buy PurgeRite, a Houston-based provider of mechanical flushing, purging and filtration services for data centers, for about USD 1.00 billion in cash at closing to expand its liquid cooling services portfolio, and completed the deal in December 2025. DC Market Insights treats these thermal and power orders as a leading indicator of manifold demand.

Market Trends: How Are Liquid Cooling Manifolds Changing?

The Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market is moving toward standard quick disconnect interfaces, stainless steel and polymer construction, and open CDU and rack designs shared through the Open Compute Project (OCP).

Universal Quick Disconnect Version 2.0 Standardizes the Manifold Port

The OCP Universal Quick Disconnect (UQD) specification version 2.0.0 covers couplings for single-phase water and glycol systems, sets a maximum operating pressure of 6.89 bar (100 psi) and an operating range of 5°C to 65°C (Source: Open Compute Project UQD specification). Its contributors include AMD, CoolIT, CPC, Danfoss, Nvidia, Stäubli and Parker. Stäubli describes version 2 as an evolution of the original standard first developed in 2020. A standard port lets a hyperscaler mix manifolds and servers from different suppliers, which widens the supplier base and pushes manifold prices down.

Stainless Steel Leads, Engineering Plastics Grow Fastest at 18.86%

Stainless steel accounts for 57.4% of 2025 manifold value, worth USD 537.04 million. Vertiv’s row manifolds use 304L stainless steel with sanitary tri-clamp fittings, nVent’s RackChiller rack manifold uses extruded stainless steel, and Danfoss makes its blind-mate couplings from 303 stainless steel. Engineering plastics and composites grow fastest among materials at 18.86% a year, reaching USD 1.01 billion by 2035, because polymer manifolds weigh less and cannot corrode in glycol loops.

Open Rack Designs Move Manifolds to Blind-Mate Connections

The OCP Open Rack V3 (ORV3) blind-mate quick connector specification mounts the socket on the manifold and the plug on the server chassis, uses a 25% propylene glycol mixture as test fluid and sets a maximum working pressure of 3.45 bar (50 psi). Google contributed its Project Deschutes CDU design to OCP, and Boyd, Cooler Master, Delta, Envicool, Nidec, nVent and Vertiv showed Deschutes-based CDUs at 2025 events such as the OCP Global Summit and SuperComputing 2025. Blind-mate manifolds let a technician slide a server in without touching a hose, which cuts service time and leak risk.

Market Challenges: What Holds the Liquid Cooling Manifold Market Back?

Retrofit complexity and price pressure from a crowded supplier field are the two constraints that DC Market Insights expects to slow the Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market; retrofit work grows only 7.85% a year to 2035.

Retrofits of Air-Cooled Halls Grow at Only 7.85%

Retrofits of existing halls are worth USD 217.13 million in 2025, 23.2% of the market, and reach USD 462.33 million by 2035. Older halls lack facility water at the row, floor loading for filled manifolds and space for CDUs, so operators retrofit only the zones that host AI racks. Retrofit loops also need flushing, filtration and commissioning work that new factory-built racks avoid, which adds cost per MW.

Eight Rack Manifold Vendors at One Show Push Prices Down

Barriers to entry for rack manifolds are low. ServeTheHome counted eight vendors making NVIDIA MGX rack manifolds at GTC 2025: Pinda, LiteOn, Lead Wealth, Foxconn, Delta, Cooler Master, AVC and Auras. DC Market Insights models manifold content per MW falling 3.6% a year from USD 0.218 million in 2025 to USD 0.151 million in 2035, as more suppliers compete on price and higher rack density spreads each manifold over more kilowatts.

Market Opportunities: Where Are the New Revenue Pools in Liquid Cooling Manifolds?

Colocation data centers, growing at 17.03% a year, are the largest new revenue pool in the Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market. Replacement and expansion work on the installed base is the second, growing from USD 30.91 million to USD 704.78 million.

Colocation Spend on Manifolds Reaches USD 1.02 billion by 2035

Colocation data centers spent USD 211.45 million on manifolds in 2025, and DC Market Insights expects USD 1.02 billion by 2035, lifting their share from 22.6% to 26.9%. Colocation operators build liquid-ready halls before they know the tenant, so they buy row and facility manifolds with spare ports and modular branches. The CDU side of these loops is covered in the Data Center Cooling CDU Pumps Market report.

Replacement and Expansion Grows at 36.71% a Year

DC Market Insights assumes operators replace or extend in-rack manifolds when they refresh servers, because each GPU generation can change cold plate layouts, flow rates and port counts. DC Market Insights models replacement and expansion at USD 30.91 million in 2025 and USD 704.78 million in 2035, when it reaches 18.6% of the Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market.

Pricing: How Much Do Liquid Cooling Manifolds Cost per MW?

A liquid-cooled data center hall spends about USD 0.218 million on manifolds per MW of IT load in 2025, or about USD 218,000 per MW. These are DC Market Insights estimates covering in-rack, row and facility manifolds with their quick disconnects, excluding labor.

Manifold content per MW	2020	2025	2030	2035
USD million per MW	0.262	0.218	0.181	0.151
New liquid-cooled capacity (MW)	310	4,150	14,600	20,400

Content per MW fell from USD 0.262 million in 2020 to USD 0.218 million in 2025 as average liquid-cooled rack power rose, and DC Market Insights expects it to keep falling 3.6% a year. In-rack manifolds carry about USD 14,187 per 132 kW rack in 2025. Stainless steel and quick disconnect pricing are the two largest cost items; the UQD standard makes quick disconnects interchangeable, which compresses their price.

Standards and Regulation: Which Standards Shape Liquid Cooling Manifolds?

Three sets of standards decide how a liquid cooling manifold is built: the OCP quick disconnect and rack specifications, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) liquid cooling classes, and vendor approval lists for GPU platforms.

OCP UQD 2.0.0 and ORV3 blind-mate connector. UQD 2.0.0 sets 6.89 bar maximum operating pressure and a 5°C to 65°C range for water and glycol systems. The ORV3 blind-mate quick connector specification sets 3.45 bar maximum working pressure and tests with a 25% propylene glycol mixture. Manifolds with UQD or blind-mate ports must meet these pressure and temperature ratings.

ASHRAE TC 9.9 liquid cooling classes. ASHRAE moved to the liquid cooling class definitions W17, W27, W32, W40, W45 and W+. The class an operator designs for sets the water temperatures and flow rates the manifold loop must handle.

GPU platform approval. Stäubli’s UQD and blind-mate couplings are on NVIDIA’s Recommended Vendor List, and Parker’s push-button UQD couplings were developed to OCP specifications with a 7 bar (100 psi) maximum operating pressure. Approval lists act as a de facto qualification step for manifold suppliers serving GPU racks.

Market Segmentation: Which Segment Leads the Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market?

In-rack manifolds lead the Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market with 49.3% of 2025 value, single-phase direct-to-chip cooling leads technologies with 78.4%, and hyperscale data centers lead buyers with 47.8%. The fastest-growing segment is two-phase direct-to-chip cooling at 28.77% a year, because DC Market Insights expects the hottest accelerators to move to refrigerant-based cold plates.

By Manifold Type: In-Rack Manifolds Lead with 49.3%

Manifold type	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD billion)	CAGR 2025-2035
In-Rack Manifolds	461.26	49.3%	1.73	14.14%
Row-Based Manifolds	295.65	31.6%	1.34	16.32%
Facility-Level (TCS) Manifolds	178.70	19.1%	0.72	14.88%

Row-based manifolds grow fastest at 16.32% a year because colocation halls and large AI rows move from in-rack CDUs to row-level CDUs that feed many racks through one manifold.

By Cooling Technology: Single-Phase Direct-to-Chip Leads with 78.4%

Cooling technology	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD billion)	CAGR 2025-2035
Single-Phase Direct-to-Chip	733.52	78.4%	2.66	13.74%
Two-Phase Direct-to-Chip	29.00	3.1%	0.36	28.77%
Immersion Cooling	58.01	6.2%	0.32	18.55%
Hybrid and Rear-Door Liquid Cooling	115.08	12.3%	0.45	14.53%

Single-phase direct-to-chip loops with water and glycol remain the default for GPU racks, and their share falls only to 70.2% by 2035. DC Market Insights models fewer, larger manifolds per MW in immersion cooling, so its 6.2% share of manifold value is lower than its share of liquid-cooled capacity. Readers comparing cold plate approaches can see the Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling Market report.

By Data Center Type: Hyperscale Data Centers Lead with 47.8%

Data center type	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD billion)	CAGR 2025-2035
Hyperscale Data Centers	447.22	47.8%	1.71	14.36%
Colocation Data Centers	211.45	22.6%	1.02	17.03%
GPU and Neocloud Data Centers	144.08	15.4%	0.54	14.16%
Enterprise Data Centers	57.07	6.1%	0.24	15.56%
HPC and Research Data Centers	64.56	6.9%	0.19	11.58%
Edge Data Centers	11.23	1.2%	0.08	21.62%

Edge data centers grow fastest from a small base at 21.62% a year, and colocation gains the most share. GPU and neocloud operators spent USD 144.08 million in 2025, while HPC and research centers grow slowest at 11.58% because HPC centers adopted liquid cooling earlier and add capacity in fewer, larger steps.

By Material: Stainless Steel Leads with 57.4%

Stainless steel manifolds are worth USD 537.04 million in 2025 and USD 2.00 billion by 2035. Engineering plastics and composites hold 19.2% and reach 26.7% by 2035. Copper and brass hold 13.8% and grow slowest at 11.02%, while aluminum holds 9.6% and grows at 16.37% a year.

By Design: Multi-Circuit Manifolds Lead with 44.9%

Multi-circuit manifolds are worth USD 420.08 million in 2025 because AI racks split supply across compute trays and switch trays. Modular manifolds grow fastest at 17.57% a year and reach USD 1.45 billion by 2035, as colocation operators add branches hall by hall. Custom engineered manifolds, the custom cooling system manifolds built for specific data center infrastructure such as HPC halls, hold 12.6% and single-circuit manifolds 11.7%.

By Installation: New Builds Lead with 73.5%

New builds (greenfield) take USD 687.57 million in 2025 and USD 2.62 billion by 2035. Retrofits of existing halls take USD 217.13 million, and replacement and expansion grows fastest at 36.71% a year as the installed base ages through GPU generations.

DC Exclusive: The Manifold Content per MW Model and Manifold Type × Data Center Type Matrix

At USD 225.11 million in 2025, in-rack manifolds in hyperscale data centers are the single largest cell of the matrix and 24.1% of all manifold spending. The matrix cross-tabulates what is bought against who buys it.

2025, USD million	In-Rack	Row-Based	Facility-Level (TCS)	Total
Hyperscale Data Centers	225.11	143.04	79.07	447.22
Colocation Data Centers	91.68	69.85	49.92	211.45
GPU and Neocloud Data Centers	81.14	43.15	19.79	144.08
Enterprise Data Centers	27.04	16.56	13.47	57.07
HPC and Research Data Centers	29.29	20.03	15.24	64.56
Edge Data Centers	7.00	3.02	1.21	11.23
Total	461.26	295.65	178.70	935.61

GPU and neocloud operators spend 56.3% of their manifold budget on in-rack manifolds, the highest of the large buyers, because they buy complete liquid-cooled racks from server makers. Colocation operators spend 23.6% on facility-level manifolds, more than any other large buyer, because they build the TCS loop before tenants arrive. A supplier strong only in rack manifolds is selling mainly to hyperscale and GPU cloud buyers through server makers; a supplier of row and facility manifolds sells directly to colocation and mechanical contractors.

The matrix is a DC Market Insights model, not a shipment count. It is built from 61 inputs: 16 annual cohorts of new liquid-cooled capacity (2020 to 2035), 16 annual values of manifold content per MW, 16 replacement-rate values, 6 data center type rows and 3 manifold type columns, plus 4 supplier disclosures used as a cross-check. The model and its assumptions are explained on our research methodology page.

Regional Insights: Which Region Leads the Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market?

North America leads the Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market with 46.2% of 2025 value, and Asia Pacific is the fastest-growing region at 17.15% a year, because China, India and Malaysia are building liquid-cooled AI capacity from the start.

North America Leads with 46.2% Share

North American operators spent USD 432.25 million on liquid cooling manifolds in 2025, and the region is forecast to reach USD 1.55 billion by 2035, a CAGR of 13.64%. The United States alone accounts for USD 392.02 million. nVent has deployed more than 2 GW of liquid cooling and is leasing a second 160,000 square foot site in Blaine, Minnesota for liquid cooling. North America loses 5.2 points of share by 2035 as other regions catch up, not because its volume slows.

Asia Pacific Holds 25.1% Share

Asia Pacific is worth USD 234.84 million in 2025 and USD 1.14 billion by 2035. China is the second-largest country market at USD 104.79 million, and India grows fastest of any large country at 21.49% a year. The eight NVIDIA MGX rack manifold makers counted at GTC 2025 include Foxconn, Delta, Cooler Master, AVC and Auras. Asia Pacific gains 5.1 points of share, the largest gain of any region.

Europe Holds 18.4% Share

Europe is worth USD 172.15 million in 2025 and USD 647.57 million by 2035, a CAGR of 14.17%. The United Kingdom, Germany and France are the largest markets, and Danfoss and Stäubli make UQD and blind-mate couplings for liquid cooling.

Middle East and Africa Holds 6.4% Share

The Middle East and Africa is worth USD 59.88 million in 2025 and USD 276.45 million by 2035, a CAGR of 16.53%, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, where new AI halls are designed for liquid cooling from the start.

Latin America Holds 3.9% Share

Latin America is worth USD 36.49 million in 2025 and USD 166.63 million by 2035, a CAGR of 16.40%, led by Brazil, Mexico and Chile.

Country Analysis: Which Countries Buy the Most Liquid Cooling Manifolds?

The United States is the largest country market for liquid cooling manifolds at USD 392.02 million in 2025, 41.9% of global value, followed by China at USD 104.79 million (11.2%). The 12 largest countries account for 81.8% of 2025 spending.

Rank	Country	Region	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD billion)	CAGR 2025-2035
1	United States	North America	392.02	41.9%	1.39	13.46%
2	China	Asia Pacific	104.79	11.2%	0.48	16.37%
3	United Kingdom	Europe	38.36	4.1%	0.13	13.20%
4	Canada	North America	37.42	4.0%	0.15	14.72%
5	Germany	Europe	33.68	3.6%	0.12	13.66%
6	Japan	Asia Pacific	31.81	3.4%	0.12	14.66%
7	India	Asia Pacific	24.33	2.6%	0.17	21.49%
8	Saudi Arabia	Middle East and Africa	22.45	2.4%	0.11	17.21%
9	Malaysia	Asia Pacific	21.52	2.3%	0.11	18.10%
10	France	Europe	20.58	2.2%	0.08	15.01%
11	United Arab Emirates	Middle East and Africa	19.65	2.1%	0.09	16.55%
12	Australia	Asia Pacific	18.71	2.0%	0.09	16.63%

India is the fastest-growing country market at 21.49% a year, ahead of Malaysia at 18.10%, as AI halls outside the established hubs are designed for liquid cooling from day one. The country figures are a DC Market Insights allocation of the regional totals, weighted by each country’s estimated share of installed and new liquid-cooled capacity.

Forecast Scenarios: How Could the 2035 Forecast Change?

The Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market reaches USD 3.79 billion by 2035 in the base case, with a range of USD 2.84 billion to USD 4.58 billion across the low and high scenarios.

Scenario	Assumption from 2026	2035 (USD billion)	CAGR 2025-2035
Low	New liquid-cooled capacity 18% below base; content per MW falls 4.5% a year	2.84	11.73%
Base	New capacity rises to 20,400 MW a year; content per MW falls 3.6% a year	3.79	15.01%
High	New capacity 15% above base; content per MW falls 3.1% a year	4.58	17.21%

The low case is what a pause in AI capital spending looks like, combined with faster price erosion from the UQD standard. The high case assumes grid connections keep pace with announced AI campuses. Two-phase cooling is the main technical swing factor: it moves value from water manifolds to refrigerant manifolds with higher pressure ratings, which affects the mix more than the total.

Competitive Insights: Who Leads the Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market?

• Vertiv
• CoolIT Systems
• Schneider Electric (Motivair)
• nVent
• Delta Electronics
• Supermicro
• Parker Hannifin
• Danfoss
• Stäubli
• CPC
• Boyd
• Cooler Master
• Foxconn
• Auras
• AVC
• Flex (JetCool)

DC Market Insights estimates that the five largest suppliers, Vertiv, CoolIT Systems, Schneider Electric (Motivair), nVent and Delta Electronics, together held about 38% of the Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market in 2025, and that no single supplier held more than 11% (DC Market Insights estimate, built from manifold content in each supplier’s disclosed liquid cooling revenue and capacity). Ecolab completed its USD 4.75 billion acquisition of CoolIT Systems on July 2, 2026; when it agreed the deal in March 2026, Ecolab said CoolIT, whose products include CDUs, cold plates, liquid loops and rack manifolds, was expected to generate about USD 550.00 million of sales over the next 12 months (Source: Ecolab filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission). Schneider Electric bought an initial 75% controlling stake in Motivair, whose products include in-rack manifolds, and expects to buy the remaining 25% in 2028. nVent reported second-quarter 2026 sales of USD 1.50 billion, up 53%, with significant data center growth and new products contributing more than 30 points to sales growth. Flex acquired JetCool, whose CDU provides cooling for racks up to 300 kW. Parker Hannifin, Danfoss, Stäubli and CPC make UQD couplings of the kind mounted on manifolds, with CPC adding a 3/8-inch Everis UQD06 size in July 2025, while Foxconn, Delta, Cooler Master, Auras and AVC build rack manifolds for GPU server platforms.

Recent Developments

• In August 2025, Danfoss completed its range of OCP-compliant blind-mate couplings for direct connection between servers and manifolds, made of 303 stainless steel (Source: Danfoss news release).
• In November 2025, Vertiv announced it would acquire PurgeRite for about USD 1.00 billion in cash at closing plus up to USD 250.00 million tied to 2026 performance; the deal closed in December 2025 (Source: Vertiv press release).
• In January 2026, Motivair, a Schneider Electric company, launched a 2.5 MW CDU alongside a product line that includes in-rack manifolds (Source: Data Center Dynamics news report).
• In July 2026, Ecolab completed its acquisition of CoolIT Systems, agreed in March 2026 for about USD 4.75 billion in cash (Source: Ecolab SEC filing).
• In August 2026, nVent said it had deployed more than 2 GW of liquid cooling and was leasing a second 160,000 square foot site in Blaine, Minnesota for liquid cooling (Source: Data Center Dynamics news report).

We follow these deals, launches and capacity announcements as they happen in our data center industry updates.

Methodology: How We Built the Data Center Liquid Cooling Manifolds Market Model

DC Market Insights built this market bottom-up from 16 annual cohorts of new liquid-cooled IT capacity (2020 to 2035), each priced with a manifold content per MW that falls from USD 0.262 million in 2020 to USD 0.151 million in 2035. Replacement and expansion spending was added on the installed liquid-cooled base at 2.1% of content per MW a year in 2020, rising 0.09 points a year. The total was split by 3 manifold types, 4 cooling technologies, 6 data center types, 4 materials, 4 designs, 3 installation types and 5 regions, and every split sums to the market total. The result was checked top-down against 4 supplier disclosures (Vertiv, Ecolab for CoolIT, nVent and Supermicro) and against IEA electricity demand estimates. Country values allocate each regional total by country weights for installed and new liquid-cooled capacity. The analyst named on this page built the model, and the reviewer checked the arithmetic, the sources and the dates before publication.