LU-VE Expands Texas Cooling Plant as AI Data Centers Drive Demand
LU-VE S.p.A. is expanding its manufacturing hub in Texas, adding production capacity for cooling equipment used in data centers, power generation and refrigeration as the AI infrastructure boom increases demand for thermal-management systems.
The Italian industrial cooling company said Monday that it has inaugurated a new production area at its plant in Jacksonville, Texas, adding 20,000 square meters of space. The expansion brings the facility’s total area to more than 30,000 square meters, including offices and production areas. LU-VE said it plans to add about 200 workers over the next 18 to 24 months as the site ramps up.
The new capacity will mainly be used to manufacture outdoor cooling products built on a common platform for multiple applications, including data centers, power generation and refrigeration, according to the company.
The expansion follows LU-VE’s April announcement of a multi-year framework agreement with an unnamed global hyperscaler to supply advanced cooling systems for next-generation data centers. The agreement has a potential value of more than €100 million over the first two years, subject to project execution and customer orders. LU-VE said the systems are designed to support high-density and AI-driven workloads across several data center facilities.
The Texas expansion puts LU-VE more directly into the US data center supply chain at a time when hyperscalers and colocation providers are racing to add capacity for artificial intelligence workloads. While power availability and grid interconnection have emerged as headline constraints for AI data centers, cooling has become another critical bottleneck as newer GPU clusters produce more heat than traditional cloud-computing workloads.
LU-VE’s expansion in Texas also follows signs of stronger demand across its business. The company reported 2025 revenue of €605.4 million, up 2.8% from the prior year, with adjusted EBITDA of €88.7 million and an order book of €233.7 million at the end of 2025, up 34.2% from a year earlier. For the first quarter of 2026, LU-VE said product sales rose 13.1% year over year to €151 million, while its order book reached €300.9 million, up 43% from March 2025. (Lu-Ve)
Chief Executive Officer Matteo Liberali said the US market is a strategic growth area for the group and that the Texas expansion reflects LU-VE’s approach of serving global markets through local manufacturing. The company had already produced its first ventilated unit at the expanded Jacksonville site in March and said at the time that local production would help increase capacity, improve service levels and shorten delivery times for customers in the region.
