Data Center Frontier recently covered GRC’s new liquid cooling solution. Data Center Frontier is closely tracking trends in IT rack density. GRC has launched a new cooling design for very extreme density. GRC’s ICEraQ Series 10 can support up to 200kW of a capacity.
Our client, GRC has been one of the first to increase the use of liquid cooling in the data center industry. GRC submerges servers in a tank filled with liquid coolant, rather than using cold air.
From the article:
“This approach offers potential economic benefits by allowing data centers to operate servers without a raised floor, computer room air conditioning (CRAC) units or chillers. Last year GRC raised $7 million to accelerate the development of its immersion cooling technology.
The vast majority of data centers continue to cool IT equipment using air, while liquid cooling has been used primarily in HPC. With the emergence of cloud computing and “big data,” more companies are facing data-crunching challenges that resemble those seen by the HPC sector, which could make liquid cooling relevant for a larger pool of data center operators. Microsoft recently began using immersion-cooled servers in production as it seeks to manage rising power densities and heat in its Azure Cloud data centers.”
Read the full article at Data Center Frontier
