Can you introduce your company?
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Castrol is a global leader in high-performance lubricants and a leading player in advanced thermal management solutions. Castrol has more than 125 years of experience serving customers and consumers in the automotive, marine, industrial and energy sectors. In 2024, Castrol launched its “Onward, Upward, Forward” strategy, to meet the changing needs of its customers, explore new growth and diversification opportunities. Within the “Forward” pillar, we identified data centre liquid cooling and battery thermal management as strategic growth initiatives, signalling that these domains have moved from peripheral experimentation into core innovation focus areas for Castrol.
With four technical centres around the world, Castrol’s Thermal Management business covers markets including the US, Europe, the Middle East, China, Australia and Southeast Asia. Leveraging its advanced and innovative technologies and close collaboration with global business partners, Castrol has developed Castrol ON data centre cooling fluids to meet the escalating cooling needs in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and other applications in cloud computing, enabling optimal performance throughout the entire lifecycle of data centres. We collaborate with OEMs, cooling technology vendors, and data centre operators to accelerate liquid cooling deployments and ensure that solutions are validated, reliable, and scalable.
Why have you decided to take part in Capacity Middle East 2026?
The Middle East has emerged as one of the fastest growing Data Centre regions globally driven by AI workloads, hyperscale investments and supportive national digital strategies. The recent multi-gigawatt expansion announcements by Khazna are strong signals of the region’s ambition to establish itself as a global hub for liquid cooled Data Centres.
We also have strong confidence in Datacloud platforms as commercial and technical venues. Our engagement in Datacloud Cannes has already demonstrated tangible value in fostering collaboration, building relationships, and aligning stakeholders around emerging technologies such as liquid cooling. This makes it an ideal time to engage operators and ecosystem partners on the next phase of thermal management evolution.
What topics are you most looking forward to exploring at the event this year?
This year we are particularly focused on liquid cooling’s role in enabling high-density AI data centres. As Peter Huang, Castrol Global President of Thermal Management & Data Centres, shared “As AI data centres scale, integrated approaches across power, cooling, and system validation are more important than ever. “
To help advance the conversation, we are hosting a panel titled “Cooling the AI Revolution: How Liquid Cooling is Unlocking the Future of High-Density AI Factories.” The session will bring together experts from end-customers and engineering firms to explore key industry questions, including the viability of hybrid models, how the fluid selection impact the system architecture and performance, what challenges have operators faced in adoption and how can industry players collaborate to overcome them.
These are critical questions for a sector moving from pilots to scaled deployments, and we see Capacity ME as an important forum to address them.
Want to hear more? Join Aida and other panelists at Datacloud Middle East.
11 Feb 2026
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Datacloud stage
- Datacloud Middle East
As rack densities are driven ever higher by HPC and AI demands, reliance on air cooling is becoming a constraint for further growth. Liquid cooling is emerging as the best option to meet the demand of ever-growing cooling requirements of the increasingly power-hungry chips needed for AI.
- Is Liquid cooling becoming the only viable option for AI data centres, or do hybrid solutions still have a place?
- How does fluid selection impact your cooling options and overall performance?
- What challenges have operators faced in adopting liquid cooling? And how can we overcome them?
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