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EKOVOLT ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH MIDAS IMMERSION COOLING
Ekovolt, a holding company focused on the development and investment in next-generation data centre infrastructure, and Midas Immersion Cooling, a US-based specialist in immersion cooling technologies, have announced their collaboration to deploy advanced cooling solutions. The collaboration is in response to the surge in intensive computing demands driven by AI and high-performance computing.
The partnership combines Ekovolt’ s expertise in designing and operating AI-optimised data centre infrastructure – notably through its Voltekko development platform, which currently has a 100MW pipeline – with Midas’ innovative single-phase immersion cooling systems, which enable significantly higher compute densities while reducing energy consumption, water usage and operating costs.
The partners will evaluate opportunities to integrate immersion cooling into Ekovolt’ s future data centre developments across Europe and other strategic geographies. Midas solutions also offer the significant advantage of enabling the retrofit of existing air-cooled colocation data centres into high-density infrastructure, while fully preserving their colocation operating model – a key differentiator in a rapidly evolving market.
“ Midas has developed technologies that align exceptionally well with the future direction of AI infrastructure,” said Eric Sériès, Chairman of Ekovolt.“ Their solutions also enable the retrofit of existing air-cooled colocation data centres to significantly improve PUE while fully preserving their colocation operating model. As we continue expanding our platform across Europe and Middle East, we are committed to working with innovative technology leaders that help us deliver higher performance, greater efficiency and more sustainable infrastructure for our customers, at pace.”
“ Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally changing data centre design,” said Scott Sickmiller, Chief Executive Officer of Midas Immersion Cooling.“ Our collaboration with Ekovolt represents an exciting opportunity to combine advanced immersion cooling with one of Europe’ s most forward-looking AI infrastructure platforms. Together, we believe we can help accelerate the deployment of next-generation computing environments.”
Portus Data Centers, a rapidly growing provider of carrierneutral colocation solutions in regional markets, has announced RSS Hydro is using its Luxembourg facility for the deployment and ongoing development of FloodSENS, an AIbased flood risk modelling system. seamless connection with NVIDIA Omniverse for visualisation of real-time flood simulations. OCI provides a broad set of deployment options for AI and Machine Learning applications to maintain control over data and enables adherence with local laws and regulations.
Portus Data Centers Luxembourg is providing RSS Hydro with a secure, resilient and conveniently located data centre solution with access to further space and power as and when required. These factors, along with a responsive and experienced on-site team enable a reliable, flexible and futureproofed colocation platform for supporting the company’ s growing HPC-AI requirements.
The move to Portus Data Centers was seen as necessary by RSS Hydro for supporting its state-of-the-art High Performance Computing( HPC) infrastructure, future business expansion and a growing technology collaboration with NVIDIA and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure( OCI). The aim is to further mitigate growing flood risks to energy infrastructure by using advanced AI-driven flood modelling and 3D visualisation.
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