COMPANIES · DATA CENTERS
Ecolab
Ecolab sells water treatment, hygiene and infection-prevention products and services to restaurants, hospitals, factories, hotels and other businesses worldwide.
Ecolab sells water treatment, hygiene and infection-prevention products and services to restaurants, hospitals, factories, hotels and other businesses worldwide.
It treats cooling water for data centers and, after buying direct-to-chip liquid-cooling maker CoolIT Systems in July 2026, sells liquid-cooling hardware for AI servers. Its high-tech business is about $1.5 billion of annualized sales against roughly $16 billion in total, so AI is a growing but minority part of the company.
Commercial and industrial customers pay it for cleaning, sanitation and water-treatment chemicals, equipment, monitoring and service, and now for liquid-cooling systems.
United States (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Data centers and physical infrastructure. The buildings, land, cooling systems, backup power and electrical equipment that physically house AI computing. Every AI model has to run somewhere — these companies build and operate the real-world facilities that make that possible.
Connections (3)
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Dated or announced (2)
Source: 2026-07-02 · reviewed 2026-10-02
Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating
Limits: Statement by NVIDIA engineers quoted in an Ecolab release; does not establish a supply contract, volumes, revenue, exclusivity or the scope of any current joint product.
Ecolab Closes CoolIT Acquisition and Expands AI Cooling Platform ↗Source: 2026-03-19 · reviewed 2026-10-02
Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating
Limits: Ecolab's own description of CoolIT's pre-acquisition work, made before the deal closed; AMD is not quoted, and it does not establish joint development, current supply, volumes, revenue or exclusivity.
Ecolab to Acquire CoolIT Systems, a Global Leader in Advanced Liquid Cooling for Next-Gen AI Data Centers ↗Comparisons (1)
Source: 2026-07-02 · reviewed 2026-10-02
Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product/market overlap
Limits: Editorial comparison of overlapping products; the cited Ecolab release does not name nVent. Does not establish head-to-head bids, market share or relative size.
Ecolab Closes CoolIT Acquisition and Expands AI Cooling Platform ↗Inclusion in this database is not an endorsement of a company or its securities. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell anything, and none of it is individualized investment advice. See the disclosures. Data: AI Map v3.25.9, released .