The investment will help finance a new factory near Warsaw and a technology center in the United States. Taiwanese technology group LiteOn is investing $176 million in Warsaw-based DCX Liquid Cooling Systems, taking an approximately 25% stake in the Polish company, which makes liquid-cooling equipment for AI data centers. LiteOn said the partnership will combine DCX’s cooling technology with its own expertise in power management and global manufacturing, as Taiwanese tech investment in Poland continues to grow. “AI has become a key force reshaping industries,” LiteOn chairman Tom Soong said in the company’s official announcement, adding that data-center infrastructure is essential to unlocking its full potential. The transaction values DCX at around $704 million after the investment, according to a post by the company’s chief technology officer and founder, Maciek Szadkowski. In a LinkedIn post on Thursday, Szadkowski said the deal showed that “the technology and expertise we have built in Poland have global value.” New factory and US expansion DCX was founded in 2019 and develops systems that use liquid to remove heat generated by increasingly powerful AI servers. Szadkowski told Polish business daily Puls Biznesu that the investment will fund a new production plant near Warsaw and a technology center in the United States. The company also plans to roughly double its workforce, currently at more than 100 employees, by the end of the year. DCX says its products are deployed by three of the world’s 10 largest AI data-center operators and are sold in 75 countries, with customers including CERN, the European particle-physics laboratory, and Elon Musk’s xAI. Szadkowski said DCX’s order book is filled for the next several years. The deal comes as Poland seeks a bigger role in Europe’s AI infrastructure, including through plans to participate in the EU’s AI gigafactory program.
