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Data center and mission critical cooling is an energy intensive process, but innovators across the industry continually optimize these systems. What are the options for cooling? How can the mission critical industry improve energy efficiency? How can developments in cooling help data centers, battery energy storage systems and more handle heavier workloads? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this Mission Critical exclusive course.

The liquid future of data center cooling
Liquid cooling technologies have developed as a means to meet the demands of both the volume and density needed for tomorrow’s data services. It takes many forms, but the three primary techniques are direct-to-chip (DtC), rear door heat exchangers, and immersion cooling.
Markus Gerber

Immersion cooling
According to Mordor Intelligence, a market research firm, data centers that use immersion cooling can achieve TCO savings of up to 30%.
Jason Wei

Decarbonizing data centers with AI-driven HVAC solutions
While most data centers use air-cooled chillers that have free cooling coils to benefit from lower ambient conditions, air-cooled, magnetic bearing centrifugal chillers can operate at inverted conditions and provide free cooling without the need for additional coils.
Mukul Anand

Data center pipe dreams come true
Novva data center offers more than just a location. Inside is a cooling system that features Aquatherm PP-RCT piping, which will provide virtually leak-free service for decades to come.

How to evolve with data centers in a sustainable way
Modern data center layouts (with slab floors) are opting for the simple approach of flooding the room with a large cold air supply, managing humidity, and exhausting hot air into the plenum ceiling return.
Kelsey Herring

Adiabatic cooling: The new happy medium
Adiabatic coolers are closed-circuit coolers that primarily operate dry. However, these coolers have the unique ability to supplement the cooling capacity of the equipment through the use of pre-cooling pads, which require small quantities of water for a finite period in the year.
Mihir Kalyani

Thermal management solutions for battery energy storage systems
In general, it's best to keep batteries at a moderate, consistent temperature to ensure optimal performance and longevity. Exposure to extreme temperatures, either hot or cold, can damage batteries and cause hazardous events.
Adam Wells

Software — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The initial release of Ctrl-flow allows designers to input project information, the desired systems, and their configurations. The tool will then provide an edited sequence based on ASHRAE Guideline 36-2021 that is specific to the selected options.

Advanced cooling advances science — one university’s immersion-cooled, supercomputing journey
Thanks in no small part to single-phase immersion cooling, TACC’s Lonestar6 supercomputer delivers three times the performance than its predecessor — with less space, power, and expense.

How to optimize energy efficiency in data centers
As the value of the systems and information held by data centers continues to increase, investments in accurate, stable measurement systems and sensor technologies will be negligible given the essential services data centers provide to businesses, economies, and societies worldwide.
Steve Santoro

2023 Top Tier Products winner | Thermal Management
KUL Extreme is an Open RAN liquid cooling solution resulting from a close collaboration between Iceotope, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, and nVent to support far edge computing across the entire data center estate. Learn more about the KUL Extreme from Nathan Blom, chief commercial officer at Iceotope, on this episode of The Thought Cloud.

Image courtesy of Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory