Technology trio trials direct liquid cooling to create green energy for Poland city
MTEC "Termal," a utility operator; ACX Technologies, a data center integrator; and Neurok Thermocon, a provider of passive direct liquid cooling (PDLC) products for data centers, signed a tentative agreement to create a data center in Poland that utilizes heat reuse to provide a new heating source for Lubin, Poland.
The planned data center will be built using 350kW Modular Data Centers with PDLC developed by Neurok Thermocon. These MDCs are industry standard size with up to 1008 OCP servers placed within 12 racks and include easy-to-implement heat reuse schemes. The first 2MW phase of the project will use 6 MDCs and the second 20MW phase will add another 54 to them.
Adam Siwek, MTEC "Termal," CEO said the trial could be replicated in other parts of the country. "This data center project lays within our long-term plan to build a green energy ecosystem around Lubin,” he said. “With a successful implementation, we believe this experience can be replicated in some other municipalities in Poland."
Passive Direct Liquid Cooling appeared at the crossroads of multiple trends in the data center industry. The growing power of chips and servers requires transitioning from air to liquid cooling. Still, ecological limits and data center practices need a simple solution with minimal energy and water spending. Loop Heat Pipes-based PDLC enables sustainable data center growth and maintains the ability of heat reuse with minimal effort.
"We believe that our Green Loop Cooling line of products is the way to change the data center cooling paradigm from wasting energy and water to being a green source of heat – said Vadim Asadov, CEO of Neurok Thermocon data center growth is inevitable, but we hope to help them to grow in harmony with our planet."
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