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TECOGEN LAUNCHES DUAL-POWER SOURCE CHILLER FOR DATA CENTRES
Data centres today are in a race against time. With the power demands of AI chips surging and existing grid capacity strained to the limit, every megawatt counts.
For years, the significant power consumed by cooling – nearly a third of a data centre’ s available power – has been viewed as a necessary and fixed cost of doing business. According to Tecogen, a leading manufacturer of clean energy products, it doesn’ t have to be that way.
Operating seamlessly on natural gas, electricity or both, Tecogen’ s TECOCHILL Hybrid-Drive Chiller automatically shifts load to natural gas when cooling demand spikes. During offpeak operation, Tecogen’ s Hybrid-Drive chiller optimises itself for maximum greenhouse gas savings by operating as a high efficiency electric chiller or using a combination of electricity and natural gas.
By fuel switching during peak cooling needs, facilities instantly gain back electrical capacity for IT, turning cooling into a profit driver instead of a bottleneck.
Two fuel sources also means uninterrupted cooling in a utility outage and twice the resiliency.
“ We designed our solution with operators’ realities in mind,” said Abinand Rangesh, Tecogen CEO.“ With the Blackwell chip doubling power needs per chip, the last thing operators need is for their electric chillers to eat 30 % of their available power. What if they could cool their facilities with the same efficiency as electric, without sacrificing megawatts of power?”
Tecogen delivers a powerful combination of efficiency, resiliency and sustainability, giving data centres the ability to unlock new capacity and cut costs without compromising sustainability.
use‘ phase change’ from liquid to vapour to remove heat, enabling more efficient heat extraction with reduced energy consumption.
Cooling is among the most critical equipment in a data centre, efficiently and reliably keeping the chips at the right temperature that are foundational to the digital economy and our everyday lives. However, with cooling systems accounting for 30 % to 40 % of a data centre’ s total energy, deploying energy- and water-efficient cooling solutions is one of the industry’ s most pressing challenges.
Johnson Controls, a leader in smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, has announced a multi-million-dollar strategic investment in Accelsius, a leader in two-phase, direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology for data centres. Two-phase solutions
JOHNSON CONTROLS ANNOUNCES INVESTMENT IN DATA CENTRE LIQUID COOLING COMPANY, ACCELSIUS
“ With the sharp growth in AI, cooling innovation has become a front-line imperative to meet the increasing demands of high-density data centres,” said Austin Domenici, Vice President and General Manager, Johnson Controls Global Data Center Solutions.“ Leveraging our leading capabilities, our mission is to drive the industry forward to unlock new levels of energy efficiency across the cooling chain.”
“ With power-dense AI workloads, data centres are moving to liquid cooling,” said Josh Claman, CEO of Accelsius.“ Our two-phase, direct-to-chip cooling solutions use non-conductive fluids in highly efficient loops to stay ahead of the demanding power-dense AI and HPC workloads. This technology enables 35 % OpEx savings over single-phase direct-to-chip and 8 – 17 % total cost of ownership savings.”
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