Trane Technologies is building out a Jacksonville facility at AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center that appears to be a plant for modular data centre cooling systems, giving thermal equipment manufacturers a signal of how acquisitions are being followed by new production space as data centre demand grows.

City plans show a tenant-improvement project estimated at almost $1.78m to convert Building E, on 45 acres at 5550 POW-MIA Memorial Parkway, from storage to factory use, with a Jacksonville contractor named.

The site is in the same Hillwood-developed business park as Stellar Energy’s existing 510,433 sq ft facility, opened in June 2024 with a projected 250 skilled-labour jobs. Hillwood, the master developer, bought a further 192.3 acres from the city on 14 September, with the land previously identified for 1 million sq ft of industrial use.

Trane Technologies, headquartered in Swords, Ireland and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, is a global climate innovator; it completed the acquisition of Jacksonville-based Stellar Energy Americas, a turnkey data centre cooling provider, in February.

Trane said at completion that the acquisition strengthens its position in data centre thermal management while accelerating growth, innovation and scale for Stellar Energy. Holly Paeper, president of Commercial HVAC Americas at Trane Technologies, said demand is growing for efficient, modular and scalable thermal management solutions, an area where Stellar Energy excels.

The fit-out reflects acquirers adding production space for prefabricated cooling systems after buying specialist capacity, as data centre operators look to modular equipment that reduces supply chain constraints and speeds deployment.

The deal sits within a wider data centre thermal push, with Trane’s filings showing $553.4m gross consideration for Stellar Energy and the buyout of the remaining interest in liquid cooling provider LiquidStack in the first quarter of 2026.

For the sector, the Ireland-headquartered group’s choice of a Florida business park shows how Irish-domiciled industrial groups are expanding US manufacturing footprints.

The wider signal for the sector is that data centre cooling capacity is being added through acquisition first and factory space second, with confirmation of end use still pending until Trane comments.

Source: Jacksonville Daily Record / Trane Technologies investor release / SEC Form 10-Q