Retrofitting Legacy Data Centers for Efficient Cooling
Legacy data centers weren’t built for today’s workloads. High-density compute, accelerated AI models, and increasingly stringent sustainability metrics strain systems that were considered state of the art not long ago. Inadequate cooling infrastructure is often the limiting factor: inefficient, rigid, and unable to scale to meet demand. Building an entirely new facility isn’t always an option. Full facility rebuilds are rarely feasible due to budget constraints, operational risks, and space limitations. Instead, you can pragmatically solve your cooling problems by retrofitting your existing space. These targeted cooling upgrades can lower the risk of disrupting operations and introduce measurable performance improvements. …
Decarbonizing Data Centers: The Role of AI in Precision Cooling and Heat Recovery
Sustainability has shifted from a competitive advantage to a non-negotiable mandate for today’s data centers. As global data traffic surges, so too does the urgency to reduce energy consumption and lower carbon footprints. Among the myriad challenges facing data center operators, cooling stands out as a critical yet resource-intensive process. Innovative solutions like precision cooling and heat recovery, enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI), have emerged as powerful strategies for tackling these challenges head-on. Understanding the Decarbonization Challenge Data centers are the backbone of our digital world, powering everything from enterprise operations to streaming services. But this essential role comes at …
Is Immersion Cooling the Answer to AI’s Growing Energy Challenges?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer an emerging technology - it's a fundamental element powering nearly every digital interaction. Gallup reports that 99% of Americans interact with AI-driven products weekly. Behind the scenes, large-scale data centers shoulder this immense computational burden, supporting high-performance AI, machine learning, and cloud-based applications. …
Data Center Neighborhood Survey Report
An Airedale by Modine survey reveals we are open to data centers in our communities – if developers prioritize sustainability and local engagement. …
How Hybrid Cooling Is Future-Proofing Data Centers For The Next Generation Of AI
Data center demand is at an all-time high, with vacancy rates declining across most global markets. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to push this demand even further, calling for more higher-density facilities. …
Engineering Solution for Middle East DC Challenge
One of our Key Data Center customers in the Middle East tasked us with adapting our market-leading AireWall One unit to fit reduced dimensions for service corridor access. A smaller unit would typically mean a compromise in operating efficiency – but our innovative engineering team had other ideas. …
Have filters in Data Centers become surplus to requirements?
Our calculations suggest a possible 14% increase in energy expenditure when comparing a like-for-like set up of cooling equipment inside a data center, where the only differential is the inclusion of internal filters on the fan walls. Paul Golding, Product Manager – CRAC CRAH Fanwall, ponders the question: why do some data center operators still specify filters inside their fan walls? It is no secret that data center servers kick out huge amounts of heat that have to be controlled to prevent operation failure. So critical is cooling within the data center industry that millions of dollars are invested …
Demanding supply: How to succeed in the data supermarket
We have explained how Colocation providers are becoming “supermarkets” of data; with scalability, efficiency, accessibility and speed. …
Every Little Helps: The rise of the Data Supermarket
Gartner recently declared that “the data centre is dead”. But what do they mean by data centre? Terms like cloud have rendered the term almost redundant. …
