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.
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April 16, 2025
Kevin Roof of nVent explains how wall-of-cool rear door heat exchanger (RDHX) solutions greatly simplify the installation of data center IT.

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April 21, 2025
As demand grows for safe, high-power, space-efficient, and sustainable energy storage, Tod Higinbotham of ZincFive explains why nickel-zinc is emerging as the proven alternative...
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Powered by Accelsius, NeuCool is a complete liquid cooling solution, using a highly-efficient two-phase process and a dielectric refrigerant that is entirely safe for electronics. The NeuCool system supports 2200W+ per socket and up to 100kW per rack (80kW direct-to-chip cooling).
April 11, 2025
As racks climb toward 600 kW, vendors are delivering thermal innovations to match. Meanwhile, Dell’Oro’s revised forecast sees data center cooling and power distribution growing...
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Feb. 6, 2025
Is the recent emergence of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, alongside supply chain issues for NVIDIA’s next-generation GB200 AI chips, prompting data center operators to reconsider...
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Feb. 5, 2025
As AI continues its rapid expansion across industries, new reports from JLL, Dell'Oro and UK-based Knight Frank explain how the data center sector is engaged in a step-change ...
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Jan. 29, 2025
Telehouse is partnering with technology vendors to show customers the benefits of liquid cooling for their data center operations. For context, this article also looks at recent...
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Jan. 29, 2025
Doug Adams, President and CEO of Global Data Centers for NTT DATA, explains how NTT has responded to trends in AI and liquid cooling, and outlines the organization's plans for...
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Jan. 13, 2025
As data centers face increasing demands from AI and high-performance computing, liquid cooling technologies are becoming essential to managing heat density and driving operational...
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Accelsius’ NeuCool Thermal Simulation Rack with integrated Load Simulation Sleds
Jan. 8, 2025
Building on their tabletop demonstration at last Fall's SC24, the companies plan to bring full scale demonstration capabilities to customers. This article also includes an update...