Critical Environments: Power, Cooling, and Infrastructure
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Computers are continuing to become exponentially more powerful than those that came before them. Subsequently, heat indexes inside IT racks and data centers are always on the rise. In an attempt to mitigate this, server manufacturers have stretched air cooling to its limit, but have still come up short. Thankfully, liquid cooling is up to the task, and is the best method available to usher in the critical infrastructure landscape of tomorrow.
Implementation of liquid cooling in your data center begins with a basic examination of what is driving this evolution. Once you're familiar with variables like rising heat densities and thermodynamics, you'll then want to understand how liquid cooling will impact your critical infrastructure, including what type will work best for your application. Once you determine the best path, deploying liquid cooling will require cross-functional collaboration with a variety of internal teams like electrical (knowing new power demands), facilities (managing new mechanical requirements), and finance (to ensure proper budgeting for this evolution).
No matter what stage you're at in bringing liquid cooling to your facility, the resources below will help to better guide you from one step to the next.
When researching the potential of what liquid cooling can do for IT environments, operators want to take into account performance, efficiency, and sustainability impacts across their operations. There is a lot to consider, but this eBook shares expert opinions.
As organizations dive deeper into the feasibility of bringing liquid to the rack, they must understand how liquid cooling leverages the higher thermal transfer properties of water and other fluids to support efficient and cost-effective cooling of high-density racks. But then come the questions of what technology to utilize and how to minimize disruption. This white paper provides a focus on how data center infrastructures have evolved to support liquid cooling.
While some new facilities will be specifically designed for AI workloads, most deployments will occur in existing facilities. IT, facilities management, and power teams will need to work together to redesign and deploy liquid cooling solutions. This white paper covers how to take a 1 MW IT load that is currently air cooled and add the incremental liquid cooling infrastructure to create a hybrid system. Necessary action steps are laid out for you.
If you’re all set and ready to go to examine the products and technology available to accelerate the implementation of liquid cooling into your facilities, you will benefit from this guide from Vertiv. They have pre-engineered multiple solutions that provide a broad range of scalable products offering flexibility and customization. It includes solutions for small, mid-size, and large high performance computing workloads that support you from the edge to AI factories.
Want to see the impact of the finished product?
Check out Vertiv's case study with the company Colovore.
