![]() ![]() A data center can range in size from a single room to a massive multi-warehouse complex. This equipment also requires infrastructure to support it such as power distribution systems (including backup generators and uninterruptible power supplies) and ventilation and cooling systems (such as air conditioning systems or liquid cooling systems). The popularization and standardization of liquid cooling technology means that it is now a feasible choice for mid or small sized data centers and for smaller HPC cluster deployments.Ī data center is a facility that an organization uses for housing their IT equipment, including servers, storage, networking devices (such as switches, routers and firewalls), as well as the racks and cabling needed to organize and connect this equipment. In addition, since air cooling equipment within a server such as large fans and heat sinks is not required, liquid cooling systems can support a much greater density of CPU and GPU components in each space, delivering greater compute performance per square foot. Warm liquid cooling is a much more efficient way of transferring heat away from electrical components than air requiring far less energy for cooling. Traditional air cooling in data centers is quite inefficient, with over 400 trillion BTUs of heat wasted every year and generates a massive carbon footprint. And a lot of this energy consumption is spent not on powering the computer hardware itself, but on facility costs – mainly air conditioning. ![]() It is estimated that data centers now consume more than 2% of world’s electricity: around 272 billion kWh. What’s more, cooling fans also cause vibration which can result in damage to other components within the server and create dangerous noise levels for maintenance workers. Expensive real estate is also driving data centers to increase computing density per square foot, creating more of a cooling problem as hardware is jammed closer together with less space for air flow. The demand for greater computing power delivered by these data centers is also increasing, using ever more powerful new chips from Intel, AMD and NVIDIA that generate more heat, and server systems that pack multiple numbers of these chips into a single chassis. As the trend towards cloud computing is skyrocketing and demand is increasing for products and services enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), High Performance Computing (HPC) and the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of large, centralized data centers worldwide is also growing. ![]()
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