Mansfield Pollard has announced the formalisation of its longstanding collaboration with BladeRoom Data Centres, confirming a strategic partnership that has already delivered more than 210MW of cooling capacity to mission-critical environments. As AI, hyperscale computing and edge infrastructure reshape the demands placed on data centres, this agreement positions both organisations at the forefront of environmental control innovation.
“Together, we aim to take operational resilience to an unprecedented level. Our air management expertise aligns perfectly with BladeRoom’s vision for sustainable, low-energy data centres. This partnership is about delivering solutions that set a new standard for the industry.”
Louise Ellis-Frankland, CEO of Mansfield Pollard
The Cooling Imperative: Converging Pressures in Data Centre Design
Data centres face increasing thermal intensity driven by high-density compute, AI training clusters and evolving IT architectures. At the same time, operators must meet aggressive sustainability targets, rising energy costs and regulatory compliance.
Cooling infrastructure must now address not only peak performance and resilience, but also lifecycle cost, retrofitting viability and alignment with ASHRAE TC9.9 thermal classes. Hybrid environments are becoming the norm, with mixed air and liquid loads demanding adaptable, modular cooling strategies.
Mansfield Pollard’s expanded partnership with BladeRoom is engineered to meet these pressures, combining manufacturing excellence with deep technical insight.
A Unified Cooling Architecture: Engineered for AI, Density and Integration
At the core of Mansfield Pollard’s data centre proposition is a flexible, high-efficiency cooling architecture engineered to meet the demands of AI-driven compute, high-density workloads and legacy retrofit scenarios.
Unlike single-mode systems, our solutions are built around modularity and integration, giving operators the ability to scale cooling capacity, adapt to shifting thermal profiles and transition toward liquid-basedstrategies without disruption.
Our architecture supports deployment across greenfield and brownfield estates, including constrained power envelopes and mixed infrastructure topologies. Whether integrating with existing BMS platforms or enabling direct-to-chip liquid readiness, our systems are designed to accelerate AI deployment timelines without compromising thermal or operational resilience.
Our platform includes:
Fan Wall Units for Precision Airflow Management
Custom-engineered to support variable airflow paths, low pressure drops and integrated redundancy. Each unit can be configured for specific rack heat loads and integrated seamlessly into N+1 or 2N designs. Coil configurations support a range of water temperatures, optimising efficiency.
Liquid Cooling Support for High-Density Racks
Designed to interface with CDUs, rear-door heat exchangers and immersion systems, our chilled water modules handle W-Class return temperatures (W17 to W45+) and can be optimised for separated primary/secondary loops. This ensures thermal performance while managing serviceability.
Hybrid Cooling Configurations for Transitional Estates
For estates navigating between traditional air-cooled deployments and liquid adoption, MP systems support true hybrid operation. These allow zones to be cooled via liquid where required, while maintaining conventional air delivery in less thermally intensive areas. This is ideal for phased migration strategies.
Direct Air and Chilled Water Systems with Economisation Control
Supporting both adiabatic and dry air modes, our systems intelligently manage free cooling thresholds, modulate based on external conditions and support DX backup where required. Integrated control systems ensure temperature stability, even under dynamic load fluctuations.
This integrated architecture allows data centre operators to tailor cooling design to specific site needs, whether that means augmenting existing infrastructure, preparing for AI cluster deployment or improving sitewide efficiency.
Retrofit by Design: Engineering Refurbishment Solutions, Not Just Replacement
As legacy data centre estates face rising thermal loads and sustainability pressures, the ability to retrofit with precision rather than replace at cost becomes a competitive imperative. Mansfield Pollard’s approach goes beyond modular plant swaps. We engineer refurbishment strategies that extend asset life, unlock cooling headroom and enable future flexibility, all within constrained live environments.
Whether the estate relies on direct air systems, fan wall arrays or is preparing for liquid-based augmentation, our engineering teams develop retrofit-ready upgrades that align with specific M&E infrastructure, load profiles and operational priorities.
Recent examples include:
- Direct Air Refurbishment: Upgrades integrating EC fan technology, energy-efficient filter media and ME humidification, delivering double digit percent energy savings and a sub two-year ROI while maintaining uptime.
- Fan Wall Modernisation: Retrofit of legacy units with modern EC fans, custom airflow management and intelligent control to improve resilience and airflow targeting.
- Liquid-Ready Enablement: Strategic retrofits preparing sites for W-Class liquid loop integration, including coil upgrades, primary/secondary separation and CDU-ready modules.
These are not template solutions. Each project is engineered for precise site conditions, designed to minimise disruption and deliver rapid carbon and cost benefits.
Our full-spectrum capability means MP can support:
- Performance uplift of ageing equipment
- Integration of AI and high-density clusters into legacy halls
- Energy savings and sustainability compliance without major rebuild
This engineering-first approach allows operators to modernise cooling while preserving capital expenditure, operational continuity and infrastructure value. It builds resilience and capacity into the heart of existing estates.
Building Toward Zero: Cooling as an Enabler of Sustainability
Our cooling systems are designed to help data centre operators meet decarbonisation targets while maintaining operational continuity. Modular components support the deployment of high-efficiency loops, enable air-side free cooling where climate allows and reduce parasitic loads through intelligent fan and coil control.
Cooling also plays a critical role in unlocking wider sustainability wins. These include reducing embodied carbon through refurbishment, supporting ESG-aligned IT expansion and enabling net energy-neutral thermal strategies. Whether contributing to Scope 1 and 2 reductions or enabling carbon-aware compute scheduling through adaptive cooling, MP systems are not just efficient. They are enablers of environmental transformation.
All MP solutions are manufactured in the UK under rigorous quality assurance frameworks, offering full traceability, low embodied carbon and local supply resilience.
Beyond Compliance: Engineered to Set the Standard
As part of this agreement, MP and BladeRoom are collaborating to co-develop reference architectures for high-density cooling that exceed today’s minimum compliance standards. By building on existing deployments and incorporating operational learning, this partnership aims to raise expectations around what data centre cooling can achieve technically, environmentally and commercially.
