Modine Manufacturing Company Launches Data Center Chiller Production at New Texas Plant

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On November 11, U.S.-based Modine announced that its new manufacturing facility in Grand Prairie, Texas, has commenced commercial production, with the first production line operational since November, primarily manufacturing 2 MW and 3 MW chillers equipped with free cooling capability, targeting large data centers, cloud computing facilities, and high-density AI computing centers. The plant covers approximately 63,300 square meters and, once fully operational, is expected to become Modine's largest Airedale-brand chiller manufacturing base globally.

The new facility specializes in producing chillers for large data centers, featuring free cooling technology. This technology can utilize external cooling sources to bear part of the cooling load when outdoor ambient conditions are suitable, reducing the operational demand on mechanical refrigeration systems. The planned 2 MW and 3 MW units are primarily intended for centralized cooling systems in data centers, providing cooling capacity for servers and other high-power computing equipment. As the power density of AI training and high-performance computing equipment increases, so does data center demand for high-capacity cooling equipment.

The plant currently has one production line operational, running a single shift at this stage. Modine plans to bring four 2 MW chiller production lines into operation before the end of the current fiscal year, gradually expanding from single-shift to three-shift operations.

The Grand Prairie facility is part of Modine's $100 million U.S. data center cooling business expansion plan announced in July 2025. The plan covers four U.S. production facilities, including the new plant in the Dallas area, an expansion of the Grenada, Mississippi facility, and a study of repurposing existing sites in Franklin, Wisconsin, and Jefferson City, Missouri. The overall investment period is 12 to 18 months, involving expansion of manufacturing capacity, engineering R&D, and product testing facilities. The $100 million represents the total investment across the multi-site expansion plan, not the investment amount for the Texas plant alone.

According to project materials published by the Grand Prairie city government in October 2025, the new plant is located on Refuge Way and was initially planned as an advanced data center cooling equipment production and assembly base. Local government at the time projected the project would bring more than 1,000 new jobs.

In addition to chillers, Modine's Airedale business also offers dry coolers, coolant distribution units (CDUs), and intelligent control systems, covering different data center cooling architectures. Chillers are primarily responsible for chilled water production, dry coolers are used to reject heat through air-side heat exchange, and coolant distribution units are used to manage coolant circulation and heat exchange in liquid cooling systems.