There are always new solutions for data center cooling that promise greater performance and efficiency. Although energy efficiency, cooling management, and cooling are complex but essential, there are many aspects to maintaining and setting-up data centers. Vendors and industry associations have spent a lot of research on hardware development, data center design, and best practices to maximize energy use.

Modern cooling technology is used to cool a new data center or retrofit the existing one. This means that the data center cooling solutions will need to be upgraded.

Cooling Solutions For Computer Rooms

These devices ensure that the data center is maintained at a constant temperature, humidity, and air circulation. They also allow for the monitoring of these conditions. These server room air cooling systems are also called CRACs (Computer Room Air Conditioning) and can be set up by IT professionals in a variety of ways.

Servers Immersion Cooling Solutions

The most common approach is to use a CRAC to cool Immersion cooling is one of the latest cooling technologies for data centers. The dielectric liquids are used to submerge the hardware. This liquid is thermally conductive and extracts heat from the infrastructure via evaporative absorption.

This liquid cooling method is more efficient than traditional data center cooling methods. It uses 99 percent less electricity. This can cost you a lot, depending on how much coolant is used. These systems usually include several components, including pumps and external coolers.

Open baths, which include tubs that have hardware completely submerged in the dielectric cooling fluid, are the most economical form of immersion cooling. They are quieter, require less air circulation, and allow for dust to be developed in the data center.

Cold – Warm Aisle System

The design process is the best time to consider and implement the concept of a cold-warm aisle data center cooling solution. The server racks should be arranged so that air flows through them as efficiently and creates a feedback loop to heat and cool the air.

This concept states that the heated air is pushed in one direction while the cold air flows in the other. This type of data center has cold aisles that lead to cold air output and warm aisles that lead to return air ducts.

Contained is another component of cold-warm aisles. It stops air currents of different temperatures from mixing. The original method of cold aisle containment was to install plexiglass or vinyl panels.

It is possible to use the floor and ceiling with variable ventilation systems to prevent warm and cool air from mixing.

Free Cooling

Free cooling is another technology that can regulate the temperature of the room. It uses natural cooling air or water instead of mechanical cooling via a chiller. These systems pump coolant from nearby sources, filter it, and humidify it. These systems are also known as economizers.

This type of cooling is only possible if the cooling system has been selected for the data center. There are also data centers that provide cold water from nearby rivers, lakes, and seas instead of cooling it.

These systems can be used by companies to extend the life of existing cooling systems in their data centers, thereby reducing maintenance costs and energy consumption.

Adiabatic Cooling 

The adiabatic heating in a data center works with the air pressure. It works by cooling the air with evaporative cooling. Warm air is forced through damp mats that cool it and then pump it into the building.

This technique is based on the laws of thermodynamics which state that hot air rises above cool air because it has a lower density.

Companies can use Adiabatic cooling to cool their air efficiently and reduce power consumption by changing the airflow. This allows for savings of more than 40% on electricity.

By Emily