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Airedale International Air Conditioning has been chosen by colo provider London Data Exchange (LDeX) as its cooling partner.

The cooling manufacturer is fitting out a £5m facility in North London close to the M1 motorway.

Airedale deployed its SmartCool precision air conditioning systems across three data halls and externally mounted condensers and DeltaChill free-cooling chillers.

In the first phase, four 100kW SmartCool dual circuit units are each linked to two Airedale CR65 condensers. The SmartCool will provide under floor cold aisle delivery at a constant 22°C to contained cold aisles for maximum efficiency.

Energy savings will be increased further in the next phase when four 280kW DeltaChill FreeCool dual circuit chillers will supply ten chilled water 110kW SmartCool units. In the elevated temperatures of data centres, the DeltaChill FreeCool can provide concurrent free-cooling for up to 95% of the year.

The chillers also features microchannal coils, reducing their space claim by up to 13%. Throughout the facility both the SmartCool and DeltaChill will offer n + 1 redundancy.

Each unit will be supplied with a 1150mm duct extension connecting into a 600mm ceiling void that is supplied via return air ceiling grilles above the hot aisles. The cooling solution will be fully controlled and optimised for maximum efficiency by Airedale Controls Integrated System (ACIS).

Rob Garbutt. CEo at LDeX, said: “We have invested in Airedale’s latest chilled water and DX cooling technologies enabling us to target PUE of less than 1.3. Our environmentally responsible approach and carbon neutral status helps our clients take a huge step towards their own environmental goals and carbon reduction commitments.”

“Continued operation of our clients’ IT infrastructure and ensuring availability of their data is paramount. We offer them complete redundancy on all critical infrastructures to ensure we can maintain suitable temperatures in the event of equipment failure or planned maintenance." 

“In developing the cooling solution with Airedale, we have worked closely with sales engineer Paul Golding. His approach has been instrumental in LDeX choosing Airedale. He has come up with the ideas at the start and put us back on track when we’ve deviated from the best route. We trust his expertise and feel comfortable working with him and with Airedale.”

Says Airedale sales director Paul Oliver: “We are delighted to be working with LDeX. We have worked with them on previous data centre projects and both Airedale and LDeX understand the need for high quality, low energy cooling solutions that exceed the needs of data centres, today and in the future. “

The 22,000 square feet LDeX1 will open in April.

Separately Redstone said it had completed its data center in Hertfordshire, just north of London from which it will run its cloud services and offer greater resilience for its customers’ mission critical services. It is located at Vtesse Cirrus’ Hertfordshire facility. 

 “We build secure data centres on a regular basis for some of the world’s largest financial organisations, but we wanted to be able to demonstrate our capabilities to other clients,” said Matt Salter, Project Delivery Director. “Now we can demonstrate what we do to both present and future clients – and allow them to see just some of what’s achievable by working with Redstone and its technology partners.”