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Gordon Johnson , Senior CFD Manager , Subzero Engineering , argues that the future is hybrid and by using air cooling , containment and liquid cooling together , owners and operators can optimise and future-proof their data centre environments .
Why hybrid cooling is the future for data centres
Many data centres are experiencing increasing power density per IT rack , rising to levels that just a few years ago seemed extreme and out of reach , but today are considered both common and typical while simultaneously deploying air cooling . In 2020 for example , the Uptime Institute found that due to compute-intensive workloads , racks with densities of 20kW and higher are becoming a reality for many data centres .
This increase has left data centre stakeholders wondering if air-cooled IT equipment ( ITE ), along with containment used to separate the cold supply air from the hot exhaust air , has finally www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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