European colo company offers immersion cooling to customers • The Register

GlobalConnect claims to be the primary colocation supplier in Europe to supply immersion-based cooling to clients, and expects to develop the service to all of its datacenters in future.

The corporate, a community and datacenter companies supplier throughout Northern Europe, has deployed the newest submersion cooling expertise in its largest Danish datacenter and made it out there to colocation clients.

GlobalConnect says the system was specifically developed over 14 months at the side of immersion cooling specialist GRC to satisfy the redundancy necessities of colocation datacenters. We requested the corporate for extra particulars on how its expertise meets these wants. It mentioned:

“The unique design had only one CDU (Central Distributing Unit). Though that had a redundant pump setup – the piping, feeds, and warmth exchanger had been all single factors of failure, so we developed a configuration with two CDUs – one linked to dry coolers for optimum vitality effectivity, and the opposite linked to our tier 3 cooling ring.”

Based mostly on buyer demand, GlobalConnect mentioned it intends to finally roll out the tech to all of its 16 datacenters located throughout Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Finland, so that each one clients might be provided submerged cooling as an choice.

Submerged cooling reduces the quantity of energy required for protecting infrastructure cool by as much as 90 % in comparison with typical air cooling programs, GlobalConnect says. This could, in principle at the least, permit the corporate to move alongside financial savings to colocation clients.

GlobalConnect additionally claimed that full immersion cooling allows servers to function at the next temperature, making it attainable to carry out at a 25 % greater effectivity fee with out the chance of overheating.

“Submerged cooling is an actual sport changer that can change the market within the coming years, and we already see a excessive curiosity from our buyer base,” mentioned GlobalConnect Group’s Managing Director for Datacenters Luke Davies.

He claimed the expertise would show a key aspect in serving to the corporate meet local weather objectives and in addition help clients in reaching their very own inexperienced targets.

The surplus warmth generated by infrastructure in GlobalConnect’s datacenter in Copenhagen will even be out there to the close by municipality’s district heating system, the corporate mentioned.

Curiosity in liquid cooling has grown over the previous a number of years, particularly because the density of elements resembling CPUs and GPUs has made it more and more troublesome to maintain programs cool utilizing present strategies. Not surprisingly, liquid cooling was a sizzling subject on the SC22 Supercomputing Conference final November, with an entire host of applied sciences on show, as The Register reported.

Warning forward

Nevertheless, there are pitfalls to be careful for with liquid cooling, as Omdia’s Senior Principal Analyst for Information Middle Bodily Infrastructure, Moises Levy warned us final 12 months.

“Folks generally do not know they want a filtering system, they want software program, they are going to be monitoring the standard of dielectric fluids,” he mentioned. “It is one other kind of monitoring which requires greater expert labor.”

GRC itself introduced a multi-year collaboration with chip large Intel final 12 months to develop superior immersion cooling methods for datacenters. Nevertheless, Intel introduced in January this 12 months confirmed it was axing a deliberate $700 million analysis and improvement facility that will have targeted on liquid cooling expertise. ®