Global Switch has launched a showcase of liquid cooling technologies at its data center in London’s Docklands.

Working with six vendors, the company has set up the suite to demonstrate to its enterprise clients the different liquid cooling solutions that can be deployed within its data halls.

The suite, located in GS2/London East, features single and two-phase immersion cooling systems, as well as direct-to-chip technologies, from vendors including Liquidstack, SuperMicro, and Vertiv.

The liquid cooling showcase

Global Switch serves a roster of enterprise and hyperscale clients across its colocation data centers, and Ben Ryder, the company’s solutions engineering director, said: “Our clients at the leading edge want to know how we can support liquid cooling deployments, and this is a way to demonstrate our flexibility.

“We design our buildings to accommodate different cooling technologies, different proportions of cooling technologies in the same space, and we can help customers who want to dive straight into this, as well as those that are more conservative around it and are in a transition period.”

It’s the latter group that needs more information about the liquid cooling options at their disposal, Ryder told DCD. He said: “At the front end, with the cloud providers and the neo-clouds, they’re driving the growing rack densities. They know what they need, and the only way they can get that is through liquid cooling and moving along with the recommendations of the GPU providers.

“What we’re trying to do is help the enterprise customers that are looking to develop, where their next refresh is going to come from, and how they’re going to do it. This is completely new to some of our customers, and I think it’s eye-opening for them to see it in action.”

Ryder added that the suite also benefits Global Switch’s operations team. “It’s going to help getting them up to speed so they know what to expect moving forward,” he said.

Global Switch’s plans for London

Global Switch currently operates two sites in the Docklands - London East and London North - and last year officially announced plans for a third site, London South, which will offer 40MW across 27,000 sqm (290,625 sq ft).

Construction work is currently underway, and when complete, it will take the company’s London campus to 115,000 sqm (1.2 million sq ft) and 160MW.

The campus has 224MVA of power available and already hosts H100 and H200 GPUs for CoreWeave, in what Global Switch claims is Europe’s largest deployment of the Nvidia hardware.

Global Switch is also in the process of refurbishing GS2 for liquid cooling. The company said it is identifying multiple halls in the building from 3MW to 12MW, and in some cases, will be removing the raised floor.

DCD reported in January that the company was looking for an investor for its UK operations, having sold its operations in Australia to HMC Capital last year. The company could look to build more data centers adjacent to its current Docklands campus if suitable property becomes available.

Matthew Dent, the firm’s chief commercial officer, said: “We’ve been investing across the group over the last 18 months, so we’re well positioned to take advantage of increasing demand around AI, but also to meet the needs of a wide cross-section of customers.”