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Schneider Electric Liquid Cooling Guidelines for Data Centers

Most enterprise data centers have managed just fine by air cooling their CPUs and servers, but AI is pushing IT to explore new cooling methods, including liquid cooling. With power draws for CPUs reaching 400 watts and GPUs reaching 700 watts, air cooling is simply inadequate for the extremely hot-running, power-demanding chips used in AI.

Today, 22% of data centers are utilizing liquid cooling, according to IDC numbers. A decade of growth is anticipated, according to Global Market Insights, projecting the global data center liquid cooling market will expand at a compound annual growth rate of 15% between 2023 and 2032. (See also: Pros and cons of air, liquid and geothermal cooling systems)

A new resource from Schneider Electric is designed to assist enterprises in evaluating liquid cooling technologies and their applications in modern data centers, especially those managing high-density AI workloads.

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While Schneider Electric has a vested interest in liquid cooling, since it sells the equipment, it strove to be vendor- and product-neutral in its advice, said Robert Bunger, innovation product owner for the data center segment at Schneider Electric and a co-author of the publication, “Navigating Liquid Cooling Architectures for Data Centers with AI Workloads.”

Schneider Electric’s paper covers two types of liquid cooling: direct-to-chip, the overwhelming choice for those who have adopted liquid cooling; and immersion, which is still largely a fringe solution. Immersion cooling involves dunking very expensive electronics in a liquid bath, but it is a non-conductive liquid, so it’s safe to use with electronics.

The Schneider Electric paper addresses three main topics:  

In addition, Schneider Electric details six common liquid cooling architectures, combining different CDU types and heat rejection methods, and it provides guidance on selecting the best option based on factors such as existing infrastructure, deployment size, speed, and energy efficiency.

Bunger said there is still a fear of leaks when companies consider liquid cooling, and it’s okay to have reasonable anxiety about that. “But I think people still kind of forget that there is water everywhere in the data center, with chilled water systems and everything like this. And this is just a little bit of an extension of that. So, you know, it’s not as scary as people think,” he said.

Migrating to liquid cooling is not something that is casually done and typically requires an experienced IT integrator, Bunger noted. “If it’s a first-time deployment for somebody doing liquid cooling, for sure, [I would recommend] to lean on the IT integrator,” he said.

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