Carrier noted that the region’s data center cooling market is projected to reach $7.3 billion by 2031
In sum – what to know:
Integrated AI cooling – The QuantumLeap platform combines liquid and air cooling with predictive controls for more efficient, scalable data center operations.
Liquid cooling in Asia – Carrier introduces its direct-to-chip cooling solution to meet rising thermal demands from AI and hyperscale workloads.
Regional market growth – Asia’s data center cooling market could reach $7.3 billion by 2031, driven by AI investments and sustainability mandates.
Carrier will present its new QuantumLeap suite of thermal management solutions at Data Centre World Asia (October 8–9), as AI-driven demand reshapes the region’s data infrastructure space.
The company, part of Carrier Global Corporation, said the platform integrates liquid and air cooling, digital controls, and predictive maintenance into a unified system aimed at improving efficiency and uptime across AI and hyperscale facilities.
Asia accounted for a record $20 billion in cross-border data center investments in 2024, said the firm, citing industry data. It said the region’s data center cooling market is projected to reach $7.3 billion by 2031.
Arun Bhatia, executive managing director for Southeast Asia at Carrier, said: “QuantumLeap combines advanced liquid and air cooling, intelligent controls and predictive service into one integrated platform.”
The QuantumLeap framework includes chillers built for rapid capacity recovery and sustainable refrigerants, a coolant distribution unit for AI racks, and Carrier’s Abound digital platform for predictive monitoring. The system also integrates infrastructure management tools such as Nlyte and Automated Logic to optimize data center ecosystems, Carrier said.
The Asia Pacific region is on track to become the world’s largest colocation data center market by 2030, surpassing the United States in both total capacity and rental revenue, according to a recent report by Cushman & Wakefield.
In its Asia Pacific Data Center Investment Landscape report, the real estate firm projects that the region will reach 23,904 megawatts (MW) of operational data center capacity by the end of the decade, outpacing the 18,256 MW expected in the U.S. This expected surge in APAC will be chiefly driven by rapid growth in cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), digital services and increasing demand for digital infrastructure across Southeast Asia, India and China.