Liquid Cooling for a Greener Data Center

In “Seven Design Considerations for a Green Data Centre,” an article published recently on the Green Cars & Green Fuel Center website, the author provides recommendations for improving the energy efficiency of data centers. One of the author’s seven recommendations is to investigate liquid cooling. The author, Wolfgang Jaegel of Datacraft, writes “To meet the challenges of blade servers and high-density computing, more organisations are realising the need for effective cooling and heat management solutions. Many are welcoming liquid cooling systems into their infrastructures to achieve better cooling efficiency…”

Liquid cooled server cabinets are very energy efficient, consuming up to 40% (1.2 PUE) less energy than air cooled infrastructures. In typical applications, the payback from energy savings is less than one year. Rack level liquid cooling also allows for cooling capacity to be added as servers are added, saving the data center money in up front costs.   

Lytron offers a Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU), a standard liquid-to-liquid cooling system specifically designed for data centers. The LCS50, a 150kW CDU, supplies coolant at precisely controlled temperatures to liquid cooled cabinets and transfers the waste heat to facility water. Lytron also offers heat exchangers for cabinet cooling and cold plates for electronics cooling  and has partnered with a liquid cooled cabinet supplier to offer a complete data center liquid cooling solution. For more information, please call Kathryn Whitenack at +1-781-933-7300.