Asetek® today announced its data center liquid cooling solutions will support a new initiative by the European Commission to  reduce EU greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030. With the explosive  growth of cloud computing, data center cooling has emerged as one of the   world’s fastest-growing energy problems. Asetek has developed three  solutions that will help contribute to the reduction in greenhouse gas  emissions: RackCDU, ISAC, and Internal Loop liquid cooling.

• RackCDU is a hot water, direct-to-chip, data center liquid cooling  system that enables cooling energy savings up to 80% and density  increases of 2.5x when compared to modern air cooled data centers.  RackCDU removes heat from CPUs, GPUs, memory modules and other hot spots   within servers and takes it all the way out of the data center using  liquid, where it can be cooled for free using outside ambient air, or  recycled for building heat or hot-water.

• ISAC eliminates the need for Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC)  in the data center. All air stays inside the server and recirculates  rather than exiting and heating up the data center, which also  significantly relaxes the air dust quality spec inside the data center. Aside from the power savings, the ISAC is ideal for field applications as  well as military applications given the servers are sealed from the surroundings and not influenced by dust.

• Internal Loop liquid coolers enable server manufacturers to utilize the highest performing CPUs and GPUs in high density server and blade  designs where air coolers cannot support these processors. The highest  performance processors are typically the processors that draw the  highest wattage (have the highest thermal design power) and require the most cooling. The superior cooling characteristics of liquid enable  Asetek’s internal loop liquid coolers to capture more heat and transfer it into a given air stream.

According to the European Commission roadmap for moving to a low-carbon economy, a cost effective and gradual  transition would require a 40% domestic reduction of greenhouse  emissions vis-à-vis 1990 as a milestone for 2030.  The European  Commission’s overall objective is an 80% domestic reduction of  greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

“The new initiative to reduce EU greenhouse gasses validates Asetek’s   own goals of reducing data center energy costs and emissions.  Data  centers consume today 2% of global electricity.  Our liquid cooling  solutions will play a key role in reaching energy goals around the globe   as data centers concentrate more and more on efficiency,” said David  Garcia, VP & GM of Asetek’s Data Center Business Unit.

In the past few months, RackCDU installations have been announced at multiple high-profile data centers including the US Department of  Defense.