Understanding Today's Data Center Cooling Needs, Challenges, and Preferences

Today's data center customers are faced with a unique set of needs, challenges, and preferences driven by the increasing demands for Cooling performance, energy efficiency, and environmental responsibility. Some key points to consider include:

Needs:

1. Performance Enhancement: Customers require cooling solutions that maintain optimal temperatures to ensure the uninterrupted performance of their critical IT equipment.
2. Energy Efficiency: There's a growing need for cooling systems that minimize power consumption to reduce operational costs and align with sustainability goals.
3. Scalability: Data center operators seek solutions that can accommodate their evolving infrastructure needs without compromising cooling efficiency.
4. Reliability: High levels of reliability are crucial to prevent downtime and data loss, making consistent cooling a top priority.

Challenges:

1. Environmental Impact: Traditional cooling methods often involve high water usage and energy consumption, raising environmental concerns and regulatory compliance challenges.
2. Space Constraints: As data centers expand, space for cooling infrastructure becomes limited, requiring innovative solutions to optimize space usage.
3. Rising Costs: Increasing energy costs pose financial challenges for data center operators, necessitating efficient cooling solutions to mitigate expenses.
4. Complexity: Managing complex cooling systems and maintaining consistent performance while adhering to environmental regulations can be challenging.

Preferences:

1. Sustainability: Customers prefer cooling solutions that align with their sustainability goals, aiming to reduce water usage, energy consumption, and carbon emissions.
2. Automation and AI: Incorporating AI-driven automation into cooling systems is highly desirable, as it promises intelligent, self-regulating operations for enhanced efficiency.
3. Modularity: Modular cooling solutions that can be easily scaled and adapted to changing requirements offer flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
4. Proven Results: Customers seek solutions with a track record of success, demonstrated through case studies, testimonials, and quantifiable energy savings.

So how does USystems by Legrand help with its ColdLogik technology?

Needs:

1. Performance Enhancement: ColdLogik provides a cooling solution that maintains optimal room temperature off the Coil, delivering room set point temperatures, whilst removing the warm air away from the hardware to ensure performance of their critical IT equipment.
2. Energy Efficiency: The ColdLogik RDHx minimises power consumption to reduce operational costs and align with sustainability goals. As a rule of thumb, cooling 50kW per rack consumes approx. 350 watts of power.
3. Scalability: The RDHx provides a dynamic solution that can accommodate the customers evolving infrastructure needs without compromising cooling efficiency. The RDHx provides flexible cooling to match the need, dependant on the heat load it faces.
4. Reliability: with a MTBF of 14+ years, its the most robust system on the market today!

Challenges:

1. Environmental Impact: The ColdLogik deployment is a closed water loop system meaning zero water wastage.
2. Space Constraints: The RDHx allows for complete removal of any "traditional" CRAC/H based cooling, Indirect cooling or Fan Walls, managing the high kW loads per rack, as well as cooling and maintaining the Data Hall ambient room temperature, meaning the extra space you save by removing them can be used as sellable real estate.
3. Rising Costs: By using the ColdLogik RDHx, the 35-40% of power consumption for cooling a DC a traditional way can be significantly reduced, saving in excess of 70% in some cases.
4. Complexity: The RDHx deployment is simple in design, reducing complexity in deployment, service and in maintaining the solution.

Preferences:

1. Sustainability: The RDHx is built using repurposed steel, wastes zero water and takes very little power to cool excess kW per rack. saving thousands of tonnes of carbon in the process.
2. Automation and AI: Although not AI-driven, the ColdLogik RDHx is AI (Adaptive Intelligent), meaning it dynamically scales to meet the necessary heat it feels on the coil.
3. Modularity: The solution can be deployed to support one rack or every rack, making it modular in design. Allowing for retrofit applications where sites need more cooling capacity without harming cooling other areas and hot spots, or just deploying the entire site with RDHx.
4. Proven Results: With thousands of RDHx from ColdLogik deployed all over the world for organisations such as CERN, Mohamed Bin Syed University of AI and Formula One teams its the perfect solution to support ESG/SDG while allowing for scalability of rack kW duties being driven by the hardware supporting AI.