Minnesota 3 Energy Park

Liquid to the chip, in a closed loop

Minnesota 3 is designed around direct liquid-to-chip cooling. Coolant runs to cold plates sitting on the processors themselves, carrying heat away at the point where it is produced rather than flooding a room with cold air and hoping to catch it.

The loop is sealed. The same fluid circulates continuously between the chips and the heat rejection equipment, which means the site consumes no water to cool itself — no evaporative makeup, no draw on the local water supply, and no water treatment program to run for the life of the facility.

Liquid to the chip, in a closed loop that consumes no water.

Designed for a smaller footprint

Pulling heat out at the source is far more effective than moving it through air, and that changes the shape of the building. Less of the floor plate goes to air handling and containment, so the same capacity fits into a smaller structure on a smaller parcel — less land, less steel, and a shorter path from groundbreaking to first power.

It is a deliberate contrast with Minnesota 2. Where that site is air-cooled and conventional, Minnesota 3 is built for the density that modern accelerated compute actually demands. Running both means we can match a workload to the right facility instead of forcing every deployment through the same design.

Where the project stands

The facility is in development, targeted for Q4 2026, and engineered in-house like every AAIM site — the same team designs it, builds it, and operates it.

If you are planning a liquid-cooled deployment on that horizon, talk to us while the design is still open. We can shape the loop, the rack layout, and the delivery schedule around what you are actually deploying.