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Free Cooling

Chilled Infrastructures Data Center Cooling Types

Free cooling is a data center cooling method that takes advantage of local climate or geologic fe...

Air Cooling

Chilled Infrastructures Data Center Cooling Types

Air cooling is a data center cooling method that uses fans and air conditioning units (often wi...

Immersion Cooling

Chilled Infrastructures Data Center Cooling Types

Immersion cooling is a data center cooling method where IT equipment is directly submerge...

Trends in Data Center Efficiency

Chilled Infrastructures Impacts of Cooling

Recent years have witnessed a shift in the U.S. data center size, with the top panel showing ho...

Visualizing Water Consumption: US Data Centers

Chilled Infrastructures Impacts of Cooling

In 2023 alone, US data centers consumed an estimated 17 billion gallons of water. That's 52,171...

Comparing Impacts by Cooling Type

Chilled Infrastructures Impacts of Cooling

Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) = Facility power (kWh)/IT equipment power (kWh) Water Usage Ef...

Visualizing Water Consumption: Non-potable vs Potable

Chilled Infrastructures Impacts of Cooling

This figure highlights the contrast between city rainfall and the scale of water consumption by...

Marseille, France

Chilled Infrastructures Case Studies

In Marseille, France, a European data center company called Interxion uses a form of liquid-bas...

Data Centers in Hot, Dry Climates

Chilled Infrastructures Impacts of Cooling

In hot, dry climates, the high water demand from data centers can put immense pressure on the l...

Mesa, Arizona

Chilled Infrastructures Case Studies

Image: Apple's data center in Mesa, Arizona In 2021, the City Council of Mesa, Arizona approve...

Data Centers in Coastal Areas

Chilled Infrastructures Impacts of Cooling

Image: A Google data center in Finland that utilizes seawater cooling Coastal areas may appear...

Glossary

Chilled Infrastructures Appendix

acre-foot A unit of volume used to measure water; the amount of water needed to cover one acre o...

Liquid Cooling

Chilled Infrastructures Data Center Cooling Types

Liquid cooling is a data center cooling method that uses liquid coolants (often water) to absor...