Schneider Electric announces
new liquid cooling solution
for data centres
This solution is ideal for applications
where high compute demands more
energy use
S
chneider Electric, a leader in
Digital Transformation of energy
management and automation, has
announced the creation of the industry’s
first commercially-available integrated
rack with chassis-based, immersive liquid
cooling, in partnership with Avnet and
Iceotope. Optimised for compute-intensive
applications, the solution combines a high-
powered GPU server with Iceotope’s liquid
cooling technology to increase energy
efficiency. Avnet integrates the liquid-
cooled server with Schneider Electric’s
NetShelter liquid-cooled enclosure system
for simple deployment into data centres or
Edge Computing environments.
This first-of-its-kind liquid-cooled solution
is ideal for applications such as Big Data
analytics, Artificial Intelligence and
Machine Learning algorithm training
development, where high compute
demands more energy use. In a recent
report published by Gartner, liquid cooling
was identified as a technology to watch.
Liquid cooling offers greater efficiency,
lower operating costs, smaller footprint,
increased reliability and nearly silent
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“Schneider Electric is committed to
making data centres more sustainable
and liquid cooling is a very compelling
approach,” said Kevin Brown, CTO
and SVP of Innovation, Secure Power,
Schneider Electric.
“This latest development marks a
significant step toward industrialising
chassis-based immersion solutions which
offer the efficiency and effectiveness of
tanks based solutions while providing the
compatibility and serviceability of more
traditional, ‘direct-to-chip’ liquid-cooling
designs. Given the growth of compute-
intensive applications, we believe this
approach is very promising.”
Adapting to changing markets,
trends and technologies
“As a leading global technology solutions
provider, Avnet has always excelled at
adapting to changing markets, trends
and technologies,” said Scott MacDonald,
Global President, Avnet Integrated.
“We do well at this by partnering with
the world’s best technology designers
and hardware manufacturers. In this
case, we’re partnering with liquid
cooling-specialist, Iceotope, and global
infrastructure giant, Schneider Electric,
to make the best possible liquid cooling
solutions for our customers.
“We’re excited to integrate, fulfil and
support this solution that smartly
addresses customer cooling challenges
around rising chip densities, harsh IT
environments, rising energy costs, water
use restrictions and space constraints.”
David Craig, CEO of Iceotope, said:
“Iceotope is thrilled to be making its
innovative chassis-level, immersive liquid
cooling technology available to the general
market. We offer the only liquid cooling
tech that scales easily from Edge
Computing devices to large server farms
in the cloud. And compared to direct-
to-chip liquid cooling systems, our
approach is more efficient, more reliable,
saves more space, eliminates fans and
when deployed across the data centre,
it lowers cost.” ◊
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The system is EcoStruxure ready since the
solution is available with next generation
data centre management software,
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operation despite the high-power
density of the GPUs. Avnet, Iceotope and
Schneider Electric plan to expand the
offering as demand grows by welcoming
other server OEMs into the partnership.