{"id":17807,"date":"2020-02-24T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/24\/news-11540\/"},"modified":"2020-02-24T11:00:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T19:00:19","slug":"news-11540","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/24\/news-11540\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid vs. Air Cooling. Which is the Capex winner?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Wendy Torell| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:40:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

Liquid cooling<\/a> has been around for some time now, but has tended to be very niche\u2026 until now. There\u2019s a lot of buzz about liquid cooling as a necessary technology to address the trend of increasing Chip TDP in data centers and at the edge. There are some clear and understood benefits of liquid cooling, including the reduced need for water, space and energy savings.<\/p>\n

But when it comes to capex, there is more uncertainty. There are questions as to whether there will be a big price premium to implement, and this becomes an obstacle to adoption. So, our group, Schneider Electric\u2019s Science Center<\/a>, decided to get to the bottom of this question. We conducted a detailed cost study, White paper 282,\u00a0Capital Cost Analysis of Immersive Liquid-Cooled vs. Air-Cooled Large Data Centers<\/a>. It goes into depth of our methodology, assumptions, data, and results, but I\u2019ll give you a summary here.
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Capex comparison at like-for-like densities<\/h2>\n

We analyzed a 2MW data center, at 10kW per rack, for both traditional and liquid cooled designs.<\/p>\n