Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Danfoss are collaborating to ship HPE IT Sustainability Companies – Information Middle Warmth Restoration, an off-the shelf warmth restoration module, serving to organizations handle and worth extra warmth as they transition in direction of extra sustainable IT services.
The speedy integration of AI applied sciences throughout organizations and companies is predicted to have a dramatic improve within the energy demand and utilization of AI optimized IT infrastructure. Based on the Worldwide Power Company, by 2026 the AI {industry} is predicted to have grown exponentially to devour a minimum of ten instances its electrical energy demand in 2023. To mitigate these challenges, IT leaders and information heart facility operators are taking motion to scale back power utilization, resembling implementing trendy power-efficient capabilities and improved cooling methods. Extra warmth within the EU alone represents an estimated 2,860 TWh/y, virtually equal to the EU’s whole power demand for warmth and scorching water in residential and repair sector buildings. The movement of extra warmth from information facilities is uninterruptible and subsequently constitutes a really dependable supply of fresh power.
To deal with these points, the brand new power environment friendly information heart answer from HPE and Danfoss presents:
HPE’s scalable Modular Information Middle (MDC), within the type of small footprint, high-density (kW/rack) containers, may be deployed practically anyplace within the whole absence of heavy {industry} and incorporates applied sciences resembling direct liquid cooling, lowering total power consumption by 20%.
Danfoss’ progressive options, together with warmth reuse modules that seize extra warmth from information facilities to offer renewable heating onsite and to neighboring buildings and industries for varied functions, and Turbocor® oil-free compressors that improve information heart cooling effectivity by as much as 30%.
“Our strategic partnership with HPE is a superb instance of how we revolutionize constructing and decarbonizing the information heart {industry} along with prospects,” stated Jürgen Fischer, President, Danfoss Local weather Options. “With this newest cross-industry partnership we’re constructing the blueprint for the subsequent era of sustainable datacenters – utilizing applied sciences accessible immediately”.
Advantages and agility of modularity
HPE’s MDC incorporates direct liquid cooling (DLC) applied sciences to reinforce power effectivity by over 20% and optimize power manufacturing and distribution, resulting in notable power financial savings. The design’s compactness minimizes power loss by lowering the space for power and cooling fluid transport and maximizes the temperature differential on the inlet and outlet, which promotes the seize of extra warmth. Moreover, the MDC’s agility and the exclusion of heavy industrial supplies negate the necessity for pricey, standard constructing supplies and considerably reduces the time to market. Deployment may be achieved 3 times faster than with conventional information facilities, reducing from 18 months to as few as 6 months. Lastly, the lowered land footprint and adaptability of the MDCs enable for placement in proximity to information era websites, which diminishes the power impression and bottlenecks related to complicated networking options and information switch, whereas additionally supporting enhanced information governance and safety.
“At HPE, we consider within the energy of collaboration to create transformative options,” stated Sue Preston, Vice President & Basic Supervisor, WW Advisory & Skilled Companies & Managed Companies, HPE. “Our partnership with Danfoss brings collectively HPE’s progressive modular information heart with Danfoss’ groundbreaking warmth reuse know-how. Collectively, we aren’t simply including worth; we’re multiplying it. By harnessing the sometimes untapped useful resource of waste warmth, turning waste into price, exhibiting the way forward for power utilization is environment friendly, clever, and, most significantly, achievable now.”
With unparalleled density, HPE’s modular information facilities provide a formidable energy utilization effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1 in distinction to the PUE of 1.3 to 1.4 sometimes related to one of the best trendy designs of conventional brick-and-mortar information facilities. Able to dealing with essentially the most power-demanding architectures like HPE Cray Supercomputing EX4000, HPE’s modular information heart is the sufficient structure for mission important and compute intensive workloads like supercomputing and generative AI, enabling scientists, universities, and enterprises to attain sooner outcomes.
From chip to chiller: driving innovation in decarbonization
To leverage extra warmth – one of many largest untapped sources of power and the biggest potential for information facilities throughout Europe, HPE has partnered up with Danfoss as their decarbonization companion. The strategic partnership takes benefit of Danfoss’ intensive product portfolio of energy-efficient options to drive innovation, assist decarbonization and construct the blueprint for the subsequent era of sustainable modular information facilities.
HPE IT Sustainability Companies – Information Middle Warmth Restoration is impressed by how Danfoss is already utilizing warmth reuse know-how at its personal headquarters campus in Denmark. Right here, the warmth is recovered from Danfoss’ onsite information heart, boosted by a warmth pump, and re-used in surrounding buildings to offer area heating. The warmth can be fed into the native district heating community to offer a renewable warmth supply to native residents. Reusing warmth is a significant a part of Danfoss’ personal decarbonization technique which has helped Danfoss obtain carbon neutrality within the power system of its 250,000m2 campus in Nordborg in 2022.
The brand new scalable modular information heart providing leverages Danfoss applied sciences, together with Turbocor® compressors for warmth pumps and chillers, warmth exchangers, warmth reuse modules, drives and pump skids permitting information facilities to be cooled as much as 30% extra effectively whereas recovering and reusing extra warmth. It’s a modular answer with parts that work collectively seamlessly and consists of two know-how stack choices with a warmth restoration system, together with hydronic warmth restoration warmth exchanger and water-water warmth pump, recovering warmth from an air-cooled edge-to-cloud modular information heart immediately and probably second part liquid cooled HPC modular information heart.
As a part of its holistic “Scale back, Reuse, Useful resource” method, Danfoss additionally companions with HPE to retire its end-of-use IT belongings by means of HPE Asset Upcycling Companies, a round economic system answer that allows know-how refurbishment and reuse, whereas recovering financial worth from these belongings.
