GPUs are getting hotter. Power demand is climbing. Data-centres are running out of headroom to keep up.
Vertiv Holdings Co. is expanding to meet the challenge with the planned acquisition of PurgeRite Intermediate, LLC for about US $1 billion, plus up to US $250 million in additional payments based on 2026 performance.
PurgeRite provides mechanical flushing, purging, and filtration services for liquid-cooling systems used in high-density computing environments. These services maintain coolant purity and prevent air or debris from reducing heat-transfer efficiency: an increasing concern as AI workloads push rack power beyond conventional air-cooling limits.
“PurgeRite’s specialized services and engineering excellence are expected to complement our existing portfolio and strengthen our ability to support high-density computing and AI applications where efficient thermal management is critical to performance and reliability,” said Giordano Albertazzi, Chief Executive Officer of Vertiv.
Vertiv expects to close the transaction in early 2026 and integrate PurgeRite into its global Services division. The company said the acquisition will be margin-accretive and extend its role in supporting next-generation data-centre cooling.
Integration Across the Stack
The PurgeRite deal continues a sequence of acquisitions that broaden Vertiv’s coverage across power, cooling, and infrastructure software.
- In August 2025, Vertiv acquired Waylay NV in Belgium, a generative-AI and automation software firm used for predictive operations and energy optimization.
- In July 2025, it purchased Great Lakes Data Racks & Cabinets in the United States for about US $200 million, adding rack and enclosure manufacturing.
- In December 2024, Vertiv bought the centrifugal-chiller technology of BiXin Energy Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. to strengthen its large-capacity thermal systems portfolio.
The company also announced new gigawatt-scale AI-factory reference architectures with Nvidia Corp. in October 2025, combining power and cooling systems that can be prefabricated and deployed up to 50 percent faster than conventional construction.
These projects use Vertiv’s “OneCore” framework, which integrates rack systems, high-voltage DC distribution, liquid-cooling modules, and lifecycle services into one platform.
According to company executives, AI-driven computing loads are forcing power, cooling, and compute systems to be designed together rather than as separate subsystems.
Growth Linked to AI Deployment
Vertiv’s results in 2025 show the impact of AI-related demand.
In the first quarter of 2025, the company reported US $2.036 billion in net sales, an increase of 24 percent year-over-year. Operating profit rose 43 percent to US $291 million. The order backlog reached US $7.9 billion, up 10 percent from the previous quarter.
“We continue to see accelerated scaling of AI deployments across the data-centre market, with strong demand signals reinforcing both our near- and long-term growth outlook,” Albertazzi said in that announcement.
Analysts at MarketWatch and Investor’s Business Daily attributed Vertiv’s 300-percent share-price increase over the past two years to these AI-driven infrastructure orders.
Vertiv has also aligned its power systems with Nvidia’s new 800-volt DC architecture, designed to reduce conversion losses and copper usage in racks exceeding one megawatt of compute. The company plans to release its 800 V DC products in 2026.
Demand for AI infrastructure is increasing in India and Southeast Asia, where hyperscale operators are expanding capacity and local climate conditions raise cooling requirements.
Vertiv’s modular and prefabricated designs (already deployed in the United States and Europe) are expected to be introduced into Asia-Pacific markets over the next year. These systems integrate power distribution, liquid cooling, and monitoring into factory-built units that can be installed on-site with shorter lead times.
Outlook
Vertiv said the PurgeRite acquisition will expand its liquid-cooling service operations and strengthen support for AI and high-performance-compute customers. The company now offers integrated solutions across racks, power distribution, cooling, and facility services.
Albertazzi and Executive Chairman David Cote have both described the expansion of AI infrastructure as a multi-decade trend.
“We’re only forty years into the digital age,” Cote told CNBC. “There’s no alternative to a data centre for storing information, even for quantum computing.”
Vertiv plans to complete the PurgeRite integration in 2026 and continue expanding its manufacturing and services capacity to meet projected demand for high-density AI facilities.
