

Australian data center company DUG has launched a cooling data center display module in Maryland.
DUG, best known as an adopter of the cooling data center design, removed the Nomad container from the Adacen data center in Silver Spring, Maryland, to show customers examples. First announced at its November 2023 general meeting, the company has launched a high-density modular bag with DUG’s one-time cooling technology.
DUG said it is targeting applications such as security, mining and education. Following a “soft launch to gauge customer demand”, the company said it has seen “strong engagement” from customers and is “actively” negotiating with customers and companies hospitality in India, the Middle East, Indonesia and Japan.
In the company’s October 2024 report, DUG said it had spoken to clients about possible relocations, including to a seismic acquisition group in the Saudi Arabian desert; in the parking lots of large oil and gas companies where existing data centers cannot handle modern equipment; and on a moving ship. The company said it has two 10-foot displays to show customers, one in the United States and the other in Perth, Australia. DUG intends to produce 20 and 40 foot models. A 10ft bag allows for up to 26RU of water resources. The 4.5 ton module provides 40 kW of heat rejection and provides up to 150 kW of tertiary power. A new business unit was created in July 2024 to deliver Nomad technology. Ron Schop, former president of seismic analysis solutions HiSeis, has been named business director of Nomad DUG. Formerly known as DownUnder GeoSolutions, the company was founded in Perth in 2003 to provide immersive high performance computing (HPC) solutions for scientific data analysis and offers HPC as a service to clients.
Its clients include Murdoch University, Australian National University, University of Western Australia, Monash University, shipbuilder Austal Australia, Australian research agency CSIRO, crypto company HODL Ranch and several oil and gas companies. DUG already has HPCs deployed in Houston, Texas, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Perth, Australia. The company plans another Australian site in Geraldton, about 400km north of Perth, Western Australia. Over the past 12 months, DUG has upgraded its data center with 1,500 new AMD Epyc Genoa servers and 600 Intel Xeon CPU Max Series. These upgrades more than double the computational capacity of the Houston site. Although it always maintains its design and data technology, DUG is starting to offer its products to others. The expansion into the modular data center follows the company’s recent decision to offer immersion cooling capabilities. In August, cooling solutions provider Baltimore Aircoil Company, Inc. (BAC) entered into a worldwide licensing agreement with DUG, granting BAC exclusive rights to DUG’s patented cooling technology. At an investor presentation in August, DUG said the deal includes the right to use, manufacture, market and sell its proprietary intellectual property and that BAC will use it to manufacture and sell immersion cooling vats. . DUG will receive royalties of up to five percent of net sales until the patent expires in 2036. DUG shall retain the right to use the Licensed Intellectual Property for its own use and for use in the Nomad Area of the Company.
During an investor presentation, DUG said it sold one of its COOL water tanks to BP Castrol. Adacen operates two data centers in the United States, one in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the other in Maryland. The 214,000 square foot Silver Spring location, located at 12401 Prosperity Drive, was acquired by Lincoln Rackhouse in 2019 from ByteGrid. Adacen has already partnered with Hypertec to launch an immersion cooler.