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Building on its landmark momentum from last year, Shumate Engineering today announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded a critical functionality patent for its revolutionary Hybrid-Dry/Adiabatic-Cooling (HD/AC) system.

Building on its landmark momentum from last year, Shumate Engineering today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded a critical functionality patent for its revolutionary Hybrid-Dry/Adiabatic-Cooling (HD/AC) system.

As you’ve probably read in the news lately, AI data centers need massive amounts of power. They also create a ton of heat. Cooling them down takes huge amounts of water and electricity.

Requiring “just a sip” of water, innovative design saves 50% in cooling power, up to $1B annually for 800 MW facilities.

The firm’s first FPE holder, Brandon Cash, will lead the in-house discipline as demand grows across higher education, warehousing, and mission-critical products.

Our founder breaks down the most common myths about data center development to his former hometown paper, Kansas’s Beloit Call. View original story here: https://beloitcall.com/stories/shumate-engineering-and-data-centers,182004?cb=1788985318

Shumate Engineering ranks on key industry lists, including “Top 400 Building Design Firms” and “Top 80 Engineering Firms” for 2026.

On the list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S., Shumate Engineering ranks No. 553 overall and No. 1 for data center engineering firms.

This year, 245 Virginia companies made the Inc. 5000 list, which ranks the nation’s 5,000 fastest-growing privately held companies, released Tuesday by media brand Inc.

Daren Shumate comments on the challenges of adaptive reuse projects, and what engineers will be looking for in the wake of a buckling incident in New York City that forced the evacuation of a major high-rise in Midtown Manhattan.

The future looks bright in the world of data center cooling. The advances in liquid cooling and the level of innovation that is emerging means data centers are about to get a lot better at keeping things cool.

Shumate Engineering also placed on the WBJ’s annual list of the largest employers in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area.

Shumate Engineering places No. 122 on the ENR “Top Design Firms” list, which ranks the largest U.S.-based designs firms, both publicly and privately held, based on design-specific revenue.

As artificial intelligence continues to permeate everyday life, the data centers needed tosupport the burgeoning technology are popping up across America—many close to residential areas. More than one-third of Americans now live within a few miles of at least one data center.

Our patented design for a hybrid-dry/adiabatic cooling stem was featured in this strategic analysis of the data center industry.

Shumate Engineering’s patented HD/AC design, which saves data centers 94% of its water and 50% of its power, is featured as a key industry innovation for 2026.

The 2025 NAIOP Best of Data Center Award of Merit went to our H5 Ashburn Data Center in Loudoun County, Va., recognized for excellence in data center design, construction, and operations.

Sterne Kessler client Shumate Engineering recently announced that it received a U.S. patent, issued as U.S. Patent No. 12,426,214, for its Hybrid-Dry/Adiabatic-Cooling (HD/AC) design, which uses a closed-loop system providing two distinct cooling flows for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers.

Shumate Engineering’s Hybrid-Dry/Adiabatic Cooling uses a single closed loop to run two taps at different water temperatures—cooling high-density racks with both fans and direct liquid.

We are thrilled to be included in the 2025 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.

Shumate Engineering placed No. 38 on the publication’s annual list of the largest engineering firms in the Washington, D.C. metro area.

Shumate Engineering places No. 153 on ENR’s 2025 “Top Design Firms” list, which ranks the largest U.S.-based designs firms, both publicly and privately held, based on design-specific revenue.

As AI transforms everything from search engines to logistics, its hidden costs are becoming harder and harder to ignore, especially in the data center. To explore the scale of the challenge, I spoke with Daren Shumate, founder of Shumate Engineering, and Stephen Spinazzola, the firm’s Director of Mission Critical Services.

In this interview, our founder shares how he got into engineering and continues to balance his creative and pragmatic sides while disrupting the ever-evolving data center industry.

Daren Shumate, founder and managing principal of Shumate Engineering, said the data center industry will be “right in the middle of the international tariff wars.”

Steve Spinazzola and Justin Penrod draft a feature article about the HDAC design they invented, which saves data centers 50% of power and 93% of water.

As AI drives data center density to new extremes, Shumate Engineering unveils a game-changing hybrid cooling design. In this episode of the DCF Show podcast, Daren Shumate and Steve Spinazzola explain how their HDAC system slashes water use, cuts power in half, and delivers PUEs as low as 1.05, all via off-the-shelf components.

Shumate Engineering has developed a unique central plant design called Hybrid Dry/Adiabatic Cooling (HDAC) that can effectively handle densities up to 40 kW per cabinet while simultaneously achieving a significantly lower Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) than any air-cooled system.