18 September 2024
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Critical cooling specialist Airedale by Modine has launched a 1MW coolant distribution unit (CDU), in response to what it describes as increasing demand for high performance, high efficiency liquid and hybrid (air & liquid) cooling solutions in the global data centre industry.
The CDU will be manufactured in the US and Europe and is said to be suitable for both colocation and hyperscale data centre providers who are seeking to manage higher-density IT heat loads. The increasing data processing power of next-generation central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs), developed to support complex IT applications like artificial intelligence, result in higher heat loads that are most efficiently served by liquid cooling solutions. The CDU is the key component of any liquid cooling system, isolating facility water systems from the IT equipment and precisely distributing coolant fluid to where it is needed in the server / rack.
Delivering up to 1MW of cooling capacity based on ASHRAE W2 or W3 facility water temperatures, integrated controls communicate with the site building management system (BMS) and system controls. The ability to network up to 8 CDUs makes it a flexible and scalable solution, responsive to a wide range of high-density loads. Manufactured with the highest quality materials and components, with N+1 pump redundancy, the Airedale CDU is engineered to perform in the uptime-dependent world of the hyperscale and colocation global data center markets.
Richard Burcher, Liquid Cooling Product Manager at Airedale by Modine, said: “We are seeing an increasing amount of enquiries for liquid cooling solutions, as providers move to a hybrid cooling approach to manage low to mid-density and high-density heat loads in the same space. Airedale by Modine is a complete system provider, encompassing air and liquid cooling, as well as control throughout the thermal chain, supported with in-territory aftersales. This expertise in all areas of data centre cooling affords our clients complete lifecycle assurance.”
