Iceotope, Intel, and HPE deal bring sustainability to edge data centers
Iceotope Technologies is collaborating with Intel and HPE to integrate its precision immersion liquid cooling technology in edge data centers, bringing sustainability and reducing energy usage by 30%, according to Iceotope. The companies demonstrated the integration of chassis-level cooling system technology at HPE’s Discover 2022 event as enterprises focus in on ESG efforts.
As part of the collaboration, the Kul (referred to as Ku:l by Iceotope) data center will provide a path to net-zero operations by reducing energy usage and improving processing performance for heavy workloads.
Iceotope benchmarked the power consumption of the Kul data center with a precision immersion cooling system against a traditional air-cooled system. The integrated cooling technology data center demonstrated a 4% increase in performance for zero throttling in higher ambient temperatures and consumed 1kW less energy at rack level than the air-cooled system, according to Iceotope. The figures show a 5% energy saving for IT workloads and 30% savings based on the typical cooling power usage effectiveness of 1.4 in air and 1.04 in liquid-cooled systems.
“Today, sustainability calls for data center cooling solutions to increase efficiency, flexibility and scalability while also delivering the performance levels today’s computing demands,” said Jen Huffstetler, chief product sustainability officer at Intel. “The new Kul Data Center precision immersion environment enables predictable IT performance with precise cooling and higher space utilization in a familiar format for today’s mission-critical facilities.”
Traditional air cooling technology has become inefficient in cooling high-power processing chips as rising demands for cloud storage solutions means increasing the number of systems in a given rack (referred to as rack density). Iceotope’s precision liquid immersion cooling technology converts the off-the-shelf air-cooled servers to liquid-cooled servers with minor modification. The solution does not require rack depopulation for high densities, enabling the rack to hold more servers, storage devices, and IT workloads.
Iceotope says its precision immersion cooling technology offers several benefits, including simplicity, cost, head capture, and energy efficiency. Iceotope’s chassis-level precision immersion cool system removes the heat from every part of the deployed system, compared to liquid cooling systems that focus on removing heat from the CPU only. The heat is captured using a recirculating coolant flow inside the chassis and then transferred to a circuit through a plate heat exchanger where it is rejected to ambient using dry-coolers.
“There is a greater need for zero-touch edge-computing capabilities to ensure reliability at remote locations when in-person monitoring and maintenance is not always feasible,” Phil Cutrone, vice president and general manager of Service Providers, OEM and Major Accounts at HPE. “The combined solution enables customers to access high-density applications using precision immersion and liquid-cooled racks for instant deployment in any environment, whether on-premises in a data center or at the edge.”
At the HPE Discover event, Iceotope’s Kul data center solution will be housed in a standard Schneider Electric NetShelter rack with heat rejected to a Schneider heat removal unit. Lenovo later joined this partnership between Iceotope, Schneider Electric, and Avnet Integrated to deploy its ThinkSystem SR670 servers in a highly scalable, GPU-rich, liquid-cooled micro data center solution.
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data center | ESG | HPE | Iceotope Technologies Ltd. | immersion cooling | Intel
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