Month: March 2026
SWORDS, Ireland, March 16, 2026 /3BL/ – Trane Technologies (NYSE:TT), a global climate innovator, today announced major enhancements to its industry-first comprehensive thermal management reference design for gigawatt-scale AI factories and unveiled two Trane Continuum Rubin DSX reference designs.
Engineered specifically to integrate with the NVIDIA® Omniverse™ DSX Blueprint for AI data centers, the new system optimizations achieve a nearly 10% improvement in overall thermal management performance compared to the original 1-gigawatt reference design announced in October. This frees up 22 megawatts of cooling capacity that can be redirected to IT power, helping boost compute output without increasing total energy consumption.
“Since the launch of our industry-first thermal management system reference design, our team has continued to work hand-in-hand with NVIDIA to push the boundaries of efficiency, scalability and intelligent simulation for gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure,” said Mauro Atalla, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer, Trane Technologies. “These latest advancements represent a major step forward in helping enable the world’s most demanding AI and high-performance computing environments to scale sustainably, reliably and with accelerated digital insight.”
“Efficiently scaling gigawatt-scale AI factories requires a fundamental shift in how we approach thermal management and data center infrastructure simulation,” said Vladimir Troy, Vice President of AI Infrastructure at NVIDIA. “Trane Technologies’ integration with the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX blueprint enables the creation of high-fidelity digital twins that help operators optimize cooling performance and maximize energy efficiency for the next generation of AI workloads.”
Through continued collaboration with NVIDIA, including as an NVIDIA Partner Network member, Trane Technologies has also expanded its Trane Continuum Rubin DSX reference design portfolio with two additional high-efficiency solutions for large-scale AI deployments:
- 250-Megawatt Duplex Simplified System Design: This new design, available now, supports extended free cooling use and incorporates integrated heat recovery, which helps reduce system complexity and results in a 14% increase in thermal management system efficiency with 10% of the heat rejection load going to heat recovery.
- 1-Gigawatt AI Factory Mag-Bearing Air-Cooled System Architecture: This new design, available soon, features a streamlined air-cooled approach using 3-megawatt units to help reduce equipment count and eliminate the need for integrated waterside economizers. The architecture incorporates Trane’s latest magnetic-bearing air-cooled chiller, providing oil-free operation, high efficiency and quieter, more efficient performance through Trane chiller plant controls.
Trane Technologies has also advanced its digital capabilities for adopting the Omniverse DSX Blueprint with more automated, scalable OpenUSD based SimReady assets. Enhanced with structured metadata, these assets will support upcoming reference design updates, helping improve configurability, accuracy and readiness for high‑scale digital‑twin and AI‑driven simulation workflows.
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About Trane Technologies
Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator. Through our strategic brands Trane® and Thermo King®, and our portfolio of environmentally responsible products and services, we bring efficient and sustainable climate solutions to buildings, homes and transportation. For more on Trane Technologies, visit www.tranetechnologies.com.
About Trane
Trane® – by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate innovator – creates comfortable, energy efficient indoor environments through a broad portfolio of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems and controls, services, parts and supply. For more information, please visit www.trane.com or www.tranetechnologies.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This news release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of securities laws, which are statements that are not historical facts, including statements that relate to our product and service innovations for AI data centers and the anticipated benefits of these innovations. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations. Factors that could cause such differences can be found in our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, as well as our subsequent reports on Form 10-Q and other SEC filings. New risks and uncertainties arise from time to time, and it is impossible for us to predict these events or how they may affect the Company. We assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
NEW ORLEANS, March 16, 2026 /3BL/ – Entergy recently invested $1 million of shareholder funds in 10 local environmental partners through the company’s Environmental Initiatives Fund. These grants mark the 25th year that Entergy has used its financial resources to support projects that save energy, educate the public, restore habitat, reduce waste and improve resiliency.
“Protecting natural resources in the communities Entergy serves is central to who we are,” said John Weiss, vice president of sustainability and environmental policy. “Our shareholders have supported the work of community partners who are protecting our natural environment and local ecosystems for 25 years, and we are excited to continue that work with today’s announcement.”
Entergy’s Environmental Initiatives Fund identifies projects that improve the environment by reducing emissions, protecting natural resources and restoring wetlands and forests. The fund also supports projects designed to educate Entergy’s customers, employees, communities and owners on the value of natural resources and other environmental improvements.
Recipients of the 2025 Environmental Initiatives Fund grants are:
- Arbor Day’s Energy-Saving Trees is a strategic tree planting initiative focused on distributing 1,000 trees to residential customers to enhance their yards and shade their homes.
Arkansas
- Arkansas Game and Fish’s Generation Conservation Conclave Program encourages students to collaborate on conservation projects that address modern challenges and allows students to engage with Arkansas Game and Fish professionals.
Louisiana
- The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Foundation will conduct a study to quantify carbon offsets using regional farmers and will compare standard farming methods to carbon uptake facilitated by farming methods.
Mississippi
- The Jackson Heart Foundation is constructing the half-mile Capitol Green Connector Multi-Use Trail, which will employ green infrastructure to manage stormwater, increase biodiversity, improve air quality, and reduce heat.
New Orleans
- The Audubon Institute “Party for the Planet” immersive educational series includes events throughout the year such as “Spring into Action,” “Endangered Species Day,” “World Ocean Day,” and “Pollination Celebration.”
- The City Park Conservancy will receive funding to support a comprehensive aquatic restoration project to address environmental degradation of its historic lagoon and bayou system.
- Grounds Krewe will receive funding to support the Sustainable Throw Catalog, which promotes sustainable throws and aims to reduce the amount of landfill-bound waste produced during Mardi Gras parades.
Texas
- The Liberty County Office of Emergency Management will re-establish degraded wetlands and coastal habitats while managing emergency management clean-up efforts.
- The Mongomery County Food Bank is modernizing the HVAC system by replacing older units with high efficiency units.
- The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation will use funding to match federal and private investments in coast resilience in eastern Texas. The foundation will implement nature-based solutions to reduce risks from coastal hazards on the local community and improve habitat for fish and wildlife.
Since the Environmental Initiatives Fund was established in 2001, Entergy shareholders have invested nearly $45 million in environmentally beneficial projects and programs. The fund also contributes to Entergy’s leadership role as an advocate for and contributor to solutions to our most critical environmental challenges.
View the list of grantees and learn more about Entergy’s Environmental Initiatives Fund on our website.
2026 requests for proposals now open
If you or someone you know has a project idea that promotes conservation, energy efficiency or delivers other environmental benefits, encourage them to review the Environmental Initiatives Fund’s 26th request for proposals for funding on our website. Applications are due May 31 no later than midnight Central Time.
About Entergy
Entergy generates, transmits and distributes electricity to power life for more than 3 million customers through our operating companies in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. We’re focused on keeping costs for our customers as low as possible while providing reliable energy that our communities count on. We’re also investing in growth for the future with a more resilient, cleaner energy system that includes nuclear, modern natural gas, renewable energy generation and storage. As a nationally recognized leader in sustainability and corporate citizenship, we deliver more than $100 million in economic benefits each year to the communities we serve through philanthropy, volunteerism and advocacy. Entergy is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, and has approximately 12,000 employees. Learn more at Entergy.com and connect with @Entergy on social media.
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Across the U.S., millions of people face growing barriers to accessing healthcare, driven by lack of insurance, policy changes, and systemic inequities that leave entire communities underserved. These challenges are not new, nor are they limited to the United States, but they are intensifying and they demand new models of care.
In Camden, New Jersey, where nearly 20% of residents are uninsured and life expectancy varies by 16 years across just a few miles, the urgency is especially clear. This isn’t just a statistic in a report; it is a call to action.
Faced with this stark data, Virtua Health and Medtronic saw an opportunity to do more than business as usual. Combining Virtua’s deep community roots with Medtronic LABS’ global experience in tech-enabled, community-based care, Healthy Neighbor was born.
This collaboration is more than a local initiative – it’s a test case that highlights how the healthcare industry can improve health outcomes in the communities that need it most.
Virtua’s community-first approach
Dennis: Virtua Health is South Jersey’s largest healthcare provider, serving a region marked by profound health disparities. Over decades, we invested in mobile health programs, from a grocery store on wheels stocked with nutritious food to custom-designed vehicles that offer cancer screenings and pediatric care.
But proximity alone wasn’t sufficient. We recognized a large opportunity to improve access to care for the region’s most vulnerable patients, namely, those who were uninsured, disengaged, or distrustful of the healthcare system. Our “Here for Good” philosophy prompted us to confront uncomfortable truths about who was left behind and why.
We made the strategic decision to treat community health as a core service line, on par with cardiology or oncology. This was a moral imperative – and it was also a sound business strategy to reduce costly emergency care by preventing illness upstream.
We designed Healthy Neighbor to address the full context of patients’ lives. Community health workers (CHWs) provide home visits, support for social needs, targeted health education, and consistent follow-up to create the foundational trust necessary for long-term behavior change. Our CHWs go out of their way, literally and figuratively, for patients.
One patient, Bill Adams*, initially questioned whether his CHW would even show up. He had no health insurance and little trust in the healthcare system in general. But Karen showed up at his home, took his blood pressure, and discovered it was dangerously elevated. She connected him to emergency care the same day.
“Thank you so much for coming to my home,” Bill told her afterward. “You saved my life.”
That story encapsulates what differentiates this model: relationships built on consistency, presence, and genuine care create the conditions where clinical interventions actually work.
A U.S. debut for Medtronic LABS
Geoff: Medtronic LABS has a decade of experience delivering community-based, tech-enabled care in countries around the world, including in Kenya, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Bangladesh. With 8,000+ community health workers trained and over 1 million patients reached, we have frameworks, tools, and credibility to help scale a new model, but had never built a program in the United States.
When we first met with Virtua leadership, we recognized an exceptional opportunity to build a program together. Our role extended beyond providing tools. We helped translate global best practices into a U.S. context, proving that tech-enabled care can be both deeply personal and genuinely scalable.
We adapted SPICE, an open-source digital health platform, for U.S. healthcare systems to ensure it met HIPAA data privacy standards and incorporated social determinants of health screening. Critically, SPICE was redesigned with CHW input to ensure the technology enhanced rather than hindered the human relationships at the heart of the program.
Simple workflows guide CHW screening, enrollment, and patient assessments. Immediate, automatic alerts flag out-of-range blood pressure and glucose values and provide clear follow-up steps. Risk-based stratification guides clinical review. Real-time dashboards enable program monitoring and rapid identification of opportunities to better serve participants. Technology is the enabler, but people are the core.
For Medtronic, Healthy Neighbor reflects our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. It advances our goals while positioning us as more than a device manufacturer but also as an essential partner in the care ecosystem.
From pilot to blueprint
In its first two years, Healthy Neighbor enrolled more than 250 individuals facing a wide range of health and social care needs. Over half live with multiple chronic conditions and had visited the ER in the past year.
The clinical outcomes are exceptional: 74% of patients with uncontrolled hypertension saw an average 15-point drop in systolic blood pressure, while 69% of those with uncontrolled diabetes reduced HbA1c (blood sugar) by 1.2%. Yet numbers only tell part of the story. Patients consistently credit community health workers for their persistence and care – the trust that makes change possible.
From the outset, Healthy Neighbor was designed for scale. A comprehensive toolkit, covering workflows, protocols, and lessons learned, helps other organizations adopt the model. With multiple entry points across primary care, emergency departments, and community settings, plus a modular tech platform, the program can be tailored to different populations and geographies.
While scaling nationally will require systemic changes – including funding for CHWs, payment models that reward prevention, and policy support – healthcare leaders don’t need to wait: the blueprint is here, and the results are remarkable.
Collaboration as a catalyst for scalable change
Healthy Neighbor began with a challenge: Could we change health outcomes if we met patients where they are and valued them as individuals?
Through community-based and tech-enabled care, we’ve created a replicable model that improves chronic disease outcomes and rebuilds trust in healthcare. The remaining barrier is leadership commitment. Health systems must assess local needs, find mission-aligned partners, and invest in long-term, trust-based solutions.
The lesson from our experience is clear: Community health must be treated as a strategic investment, not a charitable add-on. It also proves that the healthiest communities are built on relationships – and the time to build them is now.
*Name changed to protect patient privacy
Carole Hopson joined us recently for the Black History Month edition of Unscripted, our speaker series celebrating individuals who live our values and stretch what’s possible. In conversation with Marcus Sanders, VP of Global Food & Beverage at Coach, she shared her nonlinear leadership journey as one of the few Black women airline captains in the U.S.
Driven by purpose beyond the cockpit, Hopson founded the Jet Black Foundation to expand access and opportunity in aviation, with the goal of sending 100 Black women to flight school by 2035.
About Tapestry, Inc.
Our global house of iconic accessories and lifestyle brands unites the magic of Coach and kate spade new york. Together, we stretch what’s possible – advancing brands further than they could go alone, expanding their reach to new geographies and generations. Inspired by our consumers, we create experiences and products that build lasting brand love and elevate everyday life. To learn more about Tapestry, please visit tapestry.com.