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Immersion Cooling is a revolution that changes the
game and opens the opportunity to irrefutable energ
and heat reuse.
society (economic crisis, global health
emergency situation, etc.)
The more the global cloud demand
grows, the more the data centres need to
improve their performance by increasing
their efficiency. This has clearly had a
direct impact on other aspects related
to the data centre management and
maintenance procedures, such as cooling.
The heat-loads generated by modern
data centres to answer the ‘need of data’
are far above traditional, server-based
applications and this drastically increases
the costs of cooling the equipment and
the space needed to operate it effectively.
The point of no return
Attacking the challenge of cooling in the
data centre with colder and forced air is
nothing more than staying in line with
what the industry has been doing for
the last 50 years – a typical evolution
of ‘adding fuel to the fire’. And it is also
a process which, like any evolution, is
destined to end: data centres increasingly
require higher densities (reaching 100
kW per rack will soon be normal and
necessary) and it is simply not possible
to think of cooling them with traditional
methods (that is, by means of air). We
must accept that we have already reached
the point of no return.
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Immersion Cooling is a revolution that
changes the rules of the game and opens
the opportunity to irrefutable energy
savings and heat reuse.
Immersion Cooling: Back to
the future
Liquid immersion cooling is not a
new technology, it has been widely
used since the 1940s to cool highvoltage
transformers.
In recent years, Immersion Cooling has
returned to the spotlight and there is
evidence that it will represent the most
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