Telehouse has teamed up with four cooling technology vendors to launch a liquid cooling lab at its London data center.
Liquid cooling technology from the quartet of firms - Accelsius, EkkoSense, JetCool, and Legrand - will be on display at Telehouse South, at the company’s London Docklands campus.
According to Telehouse, the project will allow “customers to explore cutting-edge liquid cooling solutions and find a solution that works best for their needs.”
Mark Pestridge, executive vice president and general manager, Telehouse Europe, said: “Our liquid cooling lab is a very exciting partnership with some of the most innovative and experienced companies in the cutting-edge field of liquid cooling technology. We are committed to providing our customers with the best solutions that meet their needs for high levels of efficiency and sustainability.”
Accelsius will be showcasing its NeuCool platform, a two-phase, direct-to-chip cooling solution that uses a waterless, nonconductive refrigerant for heat removal. The deployment at Telehouse’s data center will include the Accelsius Thermal Simulation Rack, a system that replicates high-power servers, enabling users to control, monitor, and measure the cooling and computational performance delivered by NeuCool technology.
Meanwhile, JetCool, which was acquired by Flex last November, will provide its SmartPlate System direct-to-chip cooling system in the lab. The system squirts cooling fluid directly onto chips to chill them, and because of this, the company claims it can handle the highest-power CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators, cooling Superchips over 3,500W and outperforming microchannel-based designs by up to 30 percent.
Legrand will install its USystems ColdLogikCL20 rear door heat exchanger, supporting over 90kW capacity per cabinet, while EkkoSense, which provides AI-powered data center optimization software, will deploy its innovative EkkoSim ‘what-if?’ scenario simulations, air-side and liquid-side monitoring sensors, and web-based EkkoSoft Critical 3D visualizations with analytics and AI-powered advisory, and anomaly detection tools to Telehouse’s liquid cooling lab.
This enables a greater level of monitoring of data center performance, and the vendor’s EkkoSoft Critical platform is already deployed at the data center, offering improved visibility into cooling and capacity performance, as well as reducing the administrative burden for the Telehouse team.
Pestridge added: “The challenges generated by the growth of high-performance, high-density computing, and AI are very significant, but we are confident that our collaborative approach and a firm focus on what is practical in an advanced data center will deliver real results and provide customers and prospects with a range of realistic options.”