Uptime Intelligence

In this report, Uptime Intelligence looks beyond the more obvious trends of 2024 and identifies and examines some of the latest developments and their associated limitations. Strong demand for IT and increasingly high-density IT systems, along with the need to meet tough sustainability requirements, will drive a new wave of investment. Operators will be forced to respond to issues around scale and complexity, as well as innovations in cooling, software and power, while engineering will be pushed to new limits.

Data Center Frontier

This report explains why liquid cooling is the future of the data center. First, the report explains why liquid cooling is so important and how it will increase flexibility and capabilities. Then, the author outlines the three primary types of liquid cooling –liquid-to-air, liquid-to-liquid, and direct immersion. Finally, the report provides tips for how to deploy liquid cooling solutions, how to evaluate an environment for the move to liquid cooling, and why it’s important to build for the future.

Super Micro

This white paper provides an overview of the advantages of liquid cooling, different types of liquid cooling, and showcases Supermicro’s systems with liquid cooling.

Open Compute Project

The purpose of this paper is to develop standardized practices in connection of vendor-based ACS solutions to Facility Water Systems (FWS) and/or Condenser Water Systems (CWS) with the objective of maximizing scalability, efficiency, reliability at lower cost and minimal operational impact.

Dale Sartor, Retired Affiliate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

This presentation by Dale Sartor was presented at the Utilities & Data Center Conference in February 2022.

Open Compute Project

This document focuses on Technology Cooling System (TCS) liquid cooling infrastructure integration and logistics for the data center. The authors provide general guidance on server manufacturing levels, transportation, guidance on system integration and commissioning best practices. The document also provides steps required for data center installation and commissioning to provision liquid cooled racks ready for operation

Vertiv

This paper provides an overview of liquid cooling technology with a focus on how data center infrastructure has evolved to support liquid cooling.

ASHRAE

Large power increases in the compute, memory, and storage subsystems of current and future IT equipment are already challenging data centers, especially those with short refresh cycles. The challenges will only increase. Liquid cooling is becoming a requirement in some cases, and should be strongly and quickly considered. This paper explains why liquid cooling should be considered, rather than the details around what liquid cooling is or how to deploy it.

Schneider Electric

This white paper covers the fundamentals of liquid cooling, describes the advantages over conventional air cooling, and explains the 5 main direct to chip and immersive methods. To help guide the selection of the appropriate liquid cooling method for a given need, the authors explain the key attributes that must be considered.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

This paper is a collaborative effort between the U.S. and China to exchange and coordinate data center standards and specifications, give manufacturers clear market signals that promote technology compatibility and cost reductions, and achieve high efficiency, low emission data centers.