Data centers must have the capacity for growth as digital transformations drive an increased demand for remote connectivity. A new white paper from Data Aire explains why fluidity in business and global economies requires future-ready flexibility, especially as relates to data center cooling.
Insights: Data Center 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.
Cooling Guidance for Data Center Density, Efficiency and Economy of Scale
In all cooling applications where significant change can be expected for a building’s usage, future-ready flexibility is a foremost concern. A new white paper from Data Aire explains why fluidity in business and global economies requires flexibility.
How Data Centers Are Navigating the Supply Chain Crisis
Data center operators have employed a variety of strategies to navigate supply chain pressures and line up equipment for construction projects. A dozen data center C-suite executives provide insights on the supply chain challenge and the industry’s response.
Sustainable Data Center Cooling: CUE, Free Cooling, and ERE
Liquid cooling provides a pathway to more effective opportunities for energy reuse and recovery. A new special report from Nautilus Data Technologies and Data Center Frontier looks at how to sustainably meet high density cooling challenges.
Sustainability Sharpens the Focus on Data Center Water Usage Effectiveness
The type of heat rejection system used in data center cooling can have a significant impact on the energy efficiency and sustainability of a facility. A new special report from DCF and Nautilus Data Technologies explores how to sustainably meet high density cooling challenges.
Beyond PUE: Challenges in Cooling High Density Data Centers
As important as PUE was in raising energy awareness, it is only a part of more in-depth conversations about data center sustainability. A new special report from Nautilus Data Technologies and Data Center Frontier looks at how to sustainably meet high density cooling challenges.
Top 10 Data Center Stories for October 2021
October was the busiest month ever for audience growth at Data Center Frontier, reflecting growing awareness of digital infrastructure. Here are the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in October 2021.
Overclocking the Cloud? Immersion Cooling Could Enable Faster Servers
Microsoft has been test-driving the use of overclocked processors running in immersion cooling tanks, and says the combination can boost server performance by 20 percent. The company says immersion cooling “unlocks new potential for data center design.”
Microsoft Aims to Slash Data Center Water Usage by 95 Percent in 3 Years
Microsoft says it will reduce the use of water in its data centers by 95 percent by 2024 by refining how it designs and operates its massive cloud infrastructure. including operating its data centers at warmer temperatures.
Sustainability Meets High Density Data Center Cooling
Managing high density data center heat loads is a growing challenge for data center designers and operators. A new special report from Nautilus Data Technologies and Data Center Frontier examines methods for sustainably meeting high-density cooling challenges.
Data Center Frontier is edited by Rich Miller, the data center industry’s most experienced journalist. For more than 20 years, Rich has profiled the key role played by data centers in the Internet revolution.