Cold isle racks and rear door cooling (RDHX) can help traditional data centres provide 10kW in a 42u rack, but these are inefficient cooling methods and come with some potential risks. Traditional data centres typically achieve mPUE ranging from 1.2 to 1.7 but thanks to the advancements of Immersion cooling from GRC, we are able to reduce this to 1.03 which is a huge improvement and helps drive Carbon Neutrality targets. Data centres have most of the infrastructure already in place such as chilled water loops so it is an easier transition to start building immersion ready data halls.
Immersion Cooling also provides some barriers to entry as you need a heat rejection system that allows a user to capture the waste heat, there is some plumbing involved, chilled water loops and a few other considerations. The benefits however, far outweigh the initial friction and the ability to capture waste heat and repurpose it back into the building or into the community is a game changer.
Single Phase Immersion Cooling environments increases reliability, reduces downtime, and provides vastly increased capacity without the costs, risks and complexity of other liquid cooling solutions. The Heat Extraction part is achieved using Single Phase Liquid Immersion cooling; The heat is then transferred to Heat Rejection loop which utilises water for rejecting the heat to ambient. In single-phase immersion cooling, the IT hardware is submerged in a specially formulated dielectric coolant that transfers the heat directly from the components.
At GRC sustainability has been a focus since day one, and their new Series 10 system is the “greenest” system yet. With a pPUE of <1.03 it can reduce Data Centre power consumption dedicated to cooling by as much as 90%, dramatically reducing water use and carbon emissions associated with power consumption as well. In addition, ElectroSafe fluids are non-toxic, readily biodegradable, non-evaporative, and have zero global warming potential (GWP).