Data center water-cooling stocks sink after Nvidia’s Huang says new AI racks won’t need this equipment

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s comments weighed on data center cooling plays Johnson Controls, Carrier, and Trane Technologies.

As part of Monday evening comments at the Consumer Electronics Show — a headline-making tech trade fair held annually in Las Vegas — Huang boasted that despite having twice the power of its earlier Grace Blackwell GPU, Nvidia’s Vera Rubin unit can be cooled by water at much higher temperatures, eliminating the need for water-chilling equipment at data centers.

“We’re basically cooling this supercomputer with hot water, it is so incredibly efficient,” he said.

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STAAR Surgical soars after company reported preliminary sales that crushed expecations

STAAR Surgical rose more than 20% in premarket trading after it gave preliminary Q1 sales numbers that crushed Wall Street expectations, which it attributed to booming sales in China and the Americas.

The company, which sells eye implants, said in a press release published Wednesday that it expects to report revenue north of $90 million in the current quarter, compared to the $73 million analysts polled by FactSet are currently penciling in.

The company said sales in China "accounted for the majority of the increase in net sales, along with continued double-digit growth in the Americas." It also noted that sales in the Middle East "were negatively affected by significant geopolitical and macroeconomic challenges, resulting in a decline in sales in parts of those regions."

The stock is up nearly 21% as of 6:25 a.m. ET, having fallen more than 11% from the start of the year to yesterday’s close.

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Infleqtion targets revenue growth of 23% in 2026, up from 12% in 2025

Quantum computing firm Infleqtion said it’s aiming to book $40 million in sales this year as it released its 2025 results after the close on Wednesday.

That would be an increase of roughly 23% compared to the $32.5 million in revenues the company generated in 2025, and would mark an acceleration from growth of 12% last year.

The seller of quantum sensors and computers went public via a SPAC in February after carrying a pre-money valuation of $1.8 billion (well below other pure-play peers like Rigetti Computing, IonQ, and D-Wave Quantum).

“We did $29 million in revenue in 2024, and then we announced that we did $50 million of booked and awarded business in 2025. I think that sets a good foundation for significant revenue growth going forward,” CEO Matthew Kinsella told us in February. “I’ve always deeply believed that we need to develop that muscle of commercialization.”

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Applied Digital Q3 results crush estimates

The AI data center operator just released its fiscal Q3 results.

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Stocks climb and oil plunges on US-Iran ceasefire

Stocks continued their six-day winning streak, their longest of 2026, as investors returned to risk.

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Retail traders are selling everything but the Magnificent 7, per JPMorgan

JPMorgan strategist Arun Jain with the skinny on retail trading activity through 11:30 a.m. ET today:

“Retail investors are selling into today’s strength in both ETFs and Single Stocks. In ETFs, they are trimming their broad-based exposure — a major departure from their typical pattern.”

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF and ProShares UltraPro QQQ suffered particularly large outflows, per Jain.

The exceptions to the selling pressure are the Magnificent 7 stocks, he wrote, with Nvidia, Tesla, Meta, and Microsoft enjoying “small net purchases,” while Micron, TSMC, Exxon, and Chevron were the most dumped names.

Last week, Jain noted that retail traders had been “skipping the dips, selling into rallies, and positioning more defensively” with markets jittery amid the ongoing Mideast war.

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