Park Place Technologies, a leading global data centre and networking optimisation firm, has announced the expansion of its portfolio of IT infrastructure services with the introduction of two liquid cooling solutions for data centres – immersion liquid cooling and direct-to-chip cooling.
This announcement comes at a critical time for businesses who are seeing a dramatic increase in the compute power they require, driven by the adoption of technologies like AI and IoT. This in turn is driving the need for more on-prem hardware, more space for that hardware and more energy to run it all – presenting a significant financial and environmental challenge for businesses.
Park Place Technology’s new liquid cooling solutions present a strong solution for businesses looking to address these challenges as the technology has the potential to deliver strong financial and environmental results.
Direct-to-chip is an advanced cooling method that applies coolant directly to the server components that generate the most heat including CPUs and GPUs. Immersion cooling empowers data centre operators to do more with less: less space and less energy.
Using these methods, businesses can increase their Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) by up to 18x and rack density by up to 10x. Ultimately, this can help deliver power savings of up to 50%, which in turn leads to lower operation costs.
From an environmental perspective, liquid cooling is significantly more efficient than traditional air cooling. At present, air cooling technology only captures 30% of the heat generated by the servers, compared to the 100% captured by immersion cooling, resulting in lower carbon emissions for businesses that opt for immersion cooling methods.
Park Place Technologies can deliver a complete, turn-key solution for organisations looking to implement liquid cooling technology, removing the complexity of adoption, which is a common barrier for businesses. Park Place Technologies provides a single-vendor solution for the whole process from procuring the hardware, conversion of the servers for liquid cooling, installation, maintenance, monitoring and management of the hardware and the cooling technology.
“Our new liquid cooling offerings have the potential to have a significant impact on our customers’ costs and carbon emissions, two of the key issues they face today,” said Chris Carreiro, Chief Technology Officer, at Park Place Technologies. “Park Place Technologies is ideally positioned to help organisations cut their data centre operations costs, giving them the opportunity to re-invest in driving innovation across their businesses.
“The decision to invest in immersion cooling and direct-to-chip cooling depends on various factors, including the specific requirements of the data centre, budget constraints, the desired level of cooling efficiency and infrastructure complexity,” added Carreiro. “Park Place Technologies can work closely with customers to find the best solution for their business and can guide them towards the best long-term strategy while offering short-term results. This takes much of the complexity out of the process, which will enable more businesses to capitalise on this exciting new technology.”
