Castrol has launched a brand new fluid administration service for information centre liquid cooling, addressing a essential hole because the trade transitions away from conventional air-cooling techniques.
Introduced on the Datacloud International Congress 2025 in Cannes, Castrol’s new service mannequin covers all 4 phases of the info centre operation lifecycle: system start-up, ongoing upkeep, break-fix help, and fluid disposal. This strategy is designed to assist take away operational limitations within the adoption of liquid cooling in information centres.
“Knowledge centre operators recognise the advantages of liquid cooling however want assurance round long-term fluid administration,” stated Peter Huang, International Vice President of Knowledge Centre Thermal Administration at Castrol. “Castrol has delivered fluid companies for the automotive trade for many years – we’re now bringing this confirmed experience to information centres with a service mannequin that helps optimum efficiency all through the whole lifecycle.”
The four-phase service consists of:
System start-up help with fluid set up, filtration, system flushing and certificates of study
Ongoing upkeep corresponding to laboratory testing, dynamic monitoring, predictive upkeep and sensible dosing capabilities
Seamless ‘break-fix’ service, together with phone help, digital engineering help, on-site response and spare fluid availability
Assist with fluid assortment and disposal
Castrol’s service launch comes at a time when the info centre trade faces mounting stress to enhance cooling effectivity. Latest trade analysis[1] signifies that conventional air-cooling techniques battle to deal with elevated computing calls for from AI and edge computing functions, with 74% of knowledge centre specialists believing immersion cooling is now important to fulfill present energy requirements1.
“Our goal with this new service mannequin is to take away the operational and technical uncertainties which have slowed liquid cooling adoption,” stated Andrea Zunino, International Supply Growth Supervisor at Castrol. “Inside liquid cooling techniques, the fluid represents a single level of failure – degraded circumstances can cut back cooling capability and result in gear failure. We’re going past simply fluid provide to ship structured help at each stage, giving information centre operators the arrogance they should embrace liquid cooling.”
The brand new service mannequin can be deployed globally by Castrol’s companion community. All companies can be delivered with third-party suppliers. The supply and rollout of sure companies could differ by location and could also be launched at completely different instances relying on regional elements.
