SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 28, 2026--
KAYTUS, a leading provider in AI infrastructure and liquid-cooling solutions, announced that its AI Compute Pod has received both the 2026 iF Design Award and Red Dot Award. This dual recognition not only stems from its outstanding performance in green, low-energy operation—achieving up to 130 kW cooling capacity per rack and a PUE as low as 1.1 through optimized thermal and power design—but also from its innovative approach to intelligent control and efficient O&M. The solution enables second-level synchronization between cooling and IT workloads, and leverages a dual-group control strategy to improve cooling energy efficiency by over 10%.
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Jury panels from both awards highlighted the AI Compute Pod's excellence in miniaturization, modularity, and intelligence, recognizing its ability to deliver superior computing density and energy efficiency. Its innovations spanning enclosed airflow management, AI-driven thermal control, and modular scalability earned consistent acclaim across two of the world's most competitive design stages.
Both the iF Design Award and red dot award are widely recognized as the “Oscars of Design” and are two of the world’s most prestigious and enduring design competitions that have long served as global benchmarks for design excellence. This year’s iF Award alone drew 10,003 submissions from 68 countries were reviewed by a panel of 129 international design experts, with an acceptance rate of only 0.75%. Earning both accolades simultaneously, the KAYTUS AI Compute Pod emerged as a standout among leading global entries.
With demand for high-density computing accelerating across AI training, large-scale computing, high-performance computing, and scientific research, traditional data centers are under growing pressure from lengthy deployment timelines, limited space efficiency, and rising energy consumption.
Purpose-built for high-density computing applications, the KAYTUS AI Compute Pod seamlessly integrates design excellence, operational efficiency, and sustainability, establishing a new benchmark for next-generation AI datacenters.
Design Aesthetics Meet Modular Flexibility and Efficiency
Guided by modern industrial design principles, the AI Compute Pod features a linear modular rack architecture that combines visual elegance with deployment flexibility. Standardized cabinet dimensions and end panels create a clean, cohesive appearance, while the design’s simple yet robust structure enables seamless stacking and scalable expansion. By concealing high-density computing hardware behind refined lines, it projects a calm, efficient, and distinctly technology-forward visual appeal.
Modular Delivery: 70% Faster Deployment, Faster Time-to-Value
While its visual design reflects a strong emphasis on aesthetics, the true foundation of the AI Compute Pod lies in its modular architecture. Its highly integrated design supports on-demand horizontal scaling of compute, storage, and networking resources, delivering both flexibility and efficiency for evolving workload requirements.
Featuring factory-integrated hot- and cold-aisle containment and an engineering-free installation approach, the AI Compute Pod helps users avoid the complex on-site construction requirements common to traditional air-cooled data centers. By unifying AI servers and data center infrastructure into a single turnkey solution, it shortens deployment time by 70%, allowing AI datacenters to become operational within one month and substantially accelerating time-to-value for AI model training and real-world applications.
Green Design: 30% Lower Power Loss and PUE as Low as 1.1
Sustainability is integral to every aspect of the AI Compute Pod’s design. Engineered with an optimized thermal architecture for high-density workloads, the solution delivers:
The solution further features an optimized power architecture designed to support megawatt-level power delivery. By streamlining traditional power distribution through a simplified full-power short-path design and an integrated high-efficiency UPS, it ensures that power reaches load through the most direct path, reducing data center footprint by as much as 60%.
The deep integration of UPS and power distribution components further streamlines internal electrical connections, reducing power loss by more than 30% and enhancing overall energy efficiency.
Intelligent Management: Precision Control for Every Watt
KAYTUS AI Compute Pod embeds advanced intelligence at the core of its design. Its dual-group air-conditioning control strategy, enabled by nested algorithms, helps prevent localized hotspots while improving cooling system efficiency by more than 10%. A unified DCIM platform delivers centralized management through a single interface, offering both 2D and 3D visualization of high-density micro-modules as well as remote control of key cooling components. The intelligent cooling system further synchronizes cooling the output with IT load in real time within seconds, eliminating the 5–10 minute response lag typical of conventional systems. Leveraging AI-based modeling, the platform can forecast thermal load trends up to one minute in advance and adjust cooling output 12–48 seconds ahead of demand. After 1–2 weeks of continuous data optimization, PUE can be reduced from 1.5 to 1.3.
Beyond industry recognition, the AI Compute Pod has achieved large-scale deployment across diverse sectors worldwide. In the financial and energy industries, 12 systems across 108 racks were installed within just 860 m²—delivering 9–10 times higher computing density than traditional data centers, a PUE consistently below 1.2, and annual electricity savings of approximately 4.5 GWh. In scientific research and advanced manufacturing, the solution powered a high-end equipment manufacturing laboratory from planning to commissioning in just four months, supporting compute-intensive workloads such as structural simulation and fluid dynamics analysis, with resource utilization consistently above 90%. These real-world results demonstrate the AI Compute Pod's maturity, rapid deployability, and proven reliability at global scale.
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KAYTUS AI Compute Pod Wins 2026 iF Design Award and Red Dot Award, Setting a New Standard for AI Data Center
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — It’s been a year since Israeli soldiers killed 22 Palestinians, including journalists and rescue workers, in a double strike on a hospital in Gaza. No one has been held accountable.
Israeli officials said the target was a suspected Hamas camera on the roof of Nasser Hospital. Among those killed were Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri and Mariam Dagga, a visual journalist who worked for The Associated Press and other news organizations.
Despite repeated requests by AP, the army hasn't provided details about the investigation or a timeline for when it could be completed. Rights groups say Israel rarely holds troops accountable for killing Palestinians, pointing to long investigations that rarely lead to prosecution.
As global outrage over the Aug. 25, 2025, strikes grew, the Israeli military said that in addition to taking out the camera, six of those killed were linked to Hamas, without providing evidence.
But an Israeli soldier, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, now says the military could find no evidence linking the camera, which belonged to al-Masri, to Hamas. The soldier, who was privy to discussions surrounding the military’s response, said none of the six was the intended target of the strikes.
AP sent detailed questions to the military about the allegations, as well as other questions about the strikes. The military didn't address the questions but said the incident is being examined and findings will be transferred to the Military Advocate General’s Corps to reach a verdict on whether to open a criminal investigation. It didn’t provide a timeline.
AP reported at the time that one of the six Israel said was linked to Hamas wasn't on the hospital's list of casualties and two others were medical or emergency personnel. That, along with the soldier’s account, raises serious questions about Israel’s rationale for the strikes.
Why did troops fail to identify the cameraman as al-Masri, even though journalists were known to film at the hospital? Why did they strike a second time, causing most of the deaths and raising accusations of a “double tap” attack on first responders, which would be a war crime?
AP and Reuters released a statement Tuesday calling again for Israel to provide a full explanation of the strikes. The news organizations also called on Israel to give journalists access to Gaza to support colleagues who have been covering the war from the beginning.
“A year later, we remain devastated by their deaths and are still searching for answers from the Israeli authorities about what happened that day,” the statement read.
News agencies like Reuters and AP supplied live video footage to newsrooms around the world from the hospital, one of the few functioning in Gaza at the time. AP repeatedly informed the army that its journalists were there.
The first strike killed al-Masri and another person. As other journalists, including Dagga, and rescue workers rushed up an external staircase to help the wounded and document what happened, the military struck again, killing 20 people. Based on footage and multiple eyewitnesses, none was armed. In all, Israel struck the hospital four times using high-explosive tank shells.
Israeli officials afterward said Hamas was using the camera to observe nearby troops. They alleged “suspicious behavior” around the camera, but the only example they gave was that a towel draped over the camera and the person filming appeared to be an effort at concealment.
Al-Masri routinely covered equipment with a white cloth to protect it from the sun and dust, a common practice among journalists in Gaza and other hot climates.
Last week, the army announced criminal investigations into two other high-profile attacks by its troops in Gaza — the 2024 killing of 5-year-old Hind Rajab and her family, and the 2025 killing of 15 paramedics. It cleared troops in three other attacks that killed workers from international aid groups.
The soldier was connected to AP through Breaking the Silence, a group founded over two decades ago by Israeli veterans that collects testimony from soldiers and is critical of Israel's actions in the Palestinian territories.
The soldier said after high-profile strikes that kill civilians without clear military purpose, army officials search for militant links among those killed.
Breaking the Silence said its testimonies show there is a “retroactive incrimination process” in which Palestinians who are killed are automatically counted as militants, even when unarmed.
Retroactive incrimination is used as a “near automatic justification for every bullet, shell or missile fired, and as a tool used to avoid carrying out real investigations,” Nadav Weiman, the group’s executive director, said.
AP independently confirmed some details of the soldier's account, which is consistent with the military's public response. Breaking the Silence said it corroborated the account with its own sources.
The Israeli military has raided or laid siege to hospitals throughout the war, accusing Hamas of using them as command centers and to hide fighters, though it's provided evidence for only some of its claims.
Hamas security men have been seen in hospitals during the war, controlling access to certain areas. Earlier this year, Doctors Without Borders suspended some operations at Nasser Hospital for several months after patients and staff reported seeing armed, masked men roaming parts of the building.
The soldier, and a former military official with knowledge of the situation, said a high-ranking army official initially approved use of a precision weapon to take down the camera but an attempt by drone failed for unknown reasons. The former official spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to talk to the media.
The division commander then approved an alternative method, said the soldier, without saying what the method was. It's unclear who made the decision to fire tank rounds, which can cause more damage than drone strikes.
Oded Ailam, former head of the counterterrorism division in Israel's Mossad spy service, said while commanders on the ground have a degree of freedom, they don’t have a “blank check.”
“If the change is significant, particularly where it may affect the risk to civilians, it must remain within the authority, rules and intent of the original order, or require renewed approval,” he said.
Israeli troops have killed 207 Palestinian reporters in Gaza since Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack ignited the war, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. Israel has barred foreign journalists from entering Gaza, giving Palestinian journalists a critical role.
Sara Qudah, CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa regional director, said Israel has a responsibility to conduct a prompt and transparent investigation. “When journalists can be killed without credible accountability, it becomes harder and more dangerous for the press to document conflicts and for the public to know what is happening,” she said.
The lack of answers has been agonizing for families.
Ezz al-Din al-Masri said he doesn’t understand why his brother, Hussam, was killed. “Unfortunately, we found that the blood of journalists in Gaza is cheap … as if the rules protecting journalists do not apply to them,” he said.
Dagga, 33, had just taken her last photos before rushing up the stairs. Whenever her father, Riyad Abu Dagga, visits her grave, he carries her phone and camera with him — she always had them with her. He visits her apartment near Nasser Hospital and cries.
“Had any of the daughters of the soldiers been killed unjustly, they would not have stayed silent,” he said of the Israelis. “They would want to know why.”
AP reporter Wafaa Shurafa in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, contributed to this report.
Family members of Palestinian journalist Hussam al-Masri, who worked as a freelance journalist for Reuters and was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Nasser Hospital building in Khan Younis on Aug. 25, 2025, look at his photos in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Riyad Abu Dagga, 69, displays the camera and phone belonging to his slain daughter, Mariam Dagga, a freelance journalist who worked with The Associated Press and other news outlets during the Gaza war and was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Nasser Hospital building in Khan Younis on Aug. 25, 2025, in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Aug. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
The Nasser Hospital building, which was hit by an Israeli strike on Aug. 25, 2025, killing journalists Mariam Dagga and Hussam al-Masri, among others, is seen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Aug. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Riyad Abu Dagga, 69, visits the grave of his daughter, Mariam Dagga, a freelance journalist who worked with The Associated Press and other news outlets during the Gaza war and was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Nasser Hospital building in Khan Younis on Aug. 25, 2025, at a cemetery in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Aug. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
FILE - Freelance journalist Mariam Dagga, 33, who had been working with the Associated Press and other outlets during the Gaza war, poses for a portrait in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
