June 29, 2026

Omen AI raises $31m to watch the water inside AI data centres

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The unglamorous truth about the AI boom is that some of its hardest problems are plumbing. As data centres pack more GPUs into every rack and run them hotter, the fluid that keeps the chips from cooking has started, occasionally, to grow bacteria. Th...