At Computex 2026 in Taipei, two of Taiwan’s largest hardware makers converged on the same strategic bet from opposite directions. The next phase of AI data center growth will be prefabricated, modular, and shipped in containers rather than built room by room on a customer's site.
Delta Electronics unveiled a compact, prefabricated AI modular data center that slashes IT deployment time by roughly 60%. The self-contained system integrates power, cooling, and management into a footprint about the size of a single parking space, while achieving a power usage effectiveness (PUE) as low as 1.19. Available in both outdoor containerized and indoor modular formats, it supports 800 VDC row power and liquid cooling capacities exceeding 3 MW per unit.
The company is already executing at scale. Delta has deployed 76 operational sites worldwide, with 60 in Asia-Pacific, 13 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and three in North America. Its global liquid-cooling installations surpassed 3 GW as of May 2026, and the firm expects 2026 build volumes to exceed 2025. It also introduced an 800 VDC 2.4 MW liquid-to-liquid cooling distribution unit, an expanded liquid-to-air portfolio reaching 260 kW, and direct chip-level cold plates validated with Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system. Delta now holds nearly 200 patents in liquid cooling.
A short walk across the show floor, Gigabyte delivered a parallel vision under its own branding. The company introduced GADU (Gigabyte Accelerated Deployment Unit), a transportable, containerized platform that bundles high-density compute, direct liquid cooling, immersion cooling options, and power distribution. Managed by Gigabyte’s Pod Manager software, GADU enables customers to deploy AI capacity up to 400% faster than traditional builds. The units are designed for rapid customization and incremental scaling, even on remote, rugged, or edge locations.