Japanese Motor-Maker Plans Pivot to AI Cooling as New Profit Driver

(Nikkei Asia) — Japanese motor-maker Nidec Corp. will expand production of cooling modules for generative artificial intelligence (AI) servers to China and the Philippines as early as this fall, aiming to develop the sector into a new profit driver.

Servers that host generative AI services can generate incredible heat from the amount of data processing they perform, with the temperature of the core graphics processing unit sometimes approaching 100 degrees Celsius.