Cooling

Cooling is one of the primary purposes of data centers. Data center cooling has been the focus of extraordinary progress, as innovations and the application of best practices have brought dramatic gains in energy efficiency. Chief among these improvements has been the use of free cooling, most notably air-side economization. Other techniques gaining traction include water-side economization, direct and indirect evaporative cooling. At Data Center Frontier, we're also tracking innovations in liquid cooling to handle high-density workloads in high performance computing (HPC) and supercomputing. These include the use of warm water cooling, immersion cooling, phase change cooling technologies. Liquid cooling has been adopted at the row, rack and chip in different implementations.
Flex
Flex Data Center Power and Compute Areas

Flex Acquires Crown Technical Systems; Moves Into Modular Data Center, Power Distribution Markets

Oct. 29, 2024
Direct liquid cooling specialist Flex said the acquisition will increase its exposure to fast-growing markets including modular data centers and medium-voltage power distribution...

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Preventing Loss and Damage to Mission-Critical Gear Within Your Construction Supply Chain

Nov. 4, 2024
Joey Wagner of BluePrint Supply Chain explains why it's critical to have a reliable quality assurance program and consistent reporting across the entire construction supply chain...
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Flex, JetCool Data Center Liquid Cooling Collab Highlights 2024 OCP Summit's AI Innovation Focus

Oct. 14, 2024
Reflecting the AI data center focus and spirit of collaboration on display at this year's OCP Global Summit (Oct. 15-18), Flex and JetCool announced they are partnering for direct...
Vertiv
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Vertiv and DDC Invest to Expand High-Density AI, HPC Data Center Capabilities

Oct. 4, 2024
Be it the expansion of the knowledge and experience of senior management, or an increase in manufacturing space for critical data center technologies, industry investment continues...
LiquidStack
LiquidStack says its CDU-1MW system is built for advanced computing applications such as generative AI, large language models (LLMs) and HPC, while addressing a critical market need by helping alleviate CDU supply constraints in the direct-to-chip liquid cooling segment.

LiquidStack, Data Center Liquid Cooling Ascendance, and the 1 MW CDU

Sept. 30, 2024
A sense of affirmation came attached with LiquidStack's announcement of the availability of its CDU-1MW, a high-performance Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU) designed to be universally...
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The Future of Data Center Cooling: Embracing Emerging Technologies while Maintaining Air Cooling

Aug. 28, 2024
Danielle Rossi, Global Director – Mission Critical Cooling for Trane explore the benefits of hybrid data center cooling designs and the importance of embracing emerging technologies...
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Danfoss, HPE Integrate Heat Recovery, Modular Data Center Containers to Quench AI Energy Gulp

Aug. 22, 2024
New technology integration pact provides Danfoss Heat Recovery Unit (HRU) module technology in conjunction with HPE’s scalable modular data center containers.
GRC and Park Place Technologies

Comparing and Contrasting Immersion Cooling Technologies

Aug. 14, 2024
Chris Carreiro, Chief Technology Officer at Park Place Technologies, explains why the battle between liquid cooling technologies in data centers doesn't have a clear winner.
Intel

Turn Up the Volume: Data Center Liquid Immersion Cooling Advancements Fill 2024

Aug. 6, 2024
How key developments in the immersion space are leveling up to global sustainability momentum in the data center industry's "summer of liquid cooling."