Fuji Electric adapts vending cooling for data centres
Fuji Electric, Japan’s leading vending-machine maker, has adapted its refrigeration expertise into an energy-efficient cooling system for data-centre servers, the Financial Times reported. The move applies established industrial technology to infrastructure whose electricity and heat-management demands are rising with artificial-intelligence workloads, creating a new market beyond the company’s traditional machines.
Why it matters
Efficient cooling has become a critical cost and capacity constraint for the global data-centre build-out.
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Part of the October 3, 2026 brief.