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Advancing Sustainability with Hybrid Air/Liquid Cooling Schemes using Sea Water

Gemma Reeves  (Business Development Manager Data Centers, Alfa Laval)

Imran Latif  (Chief Operations Officer at a US Dept of Energy Office of Science Brookhaven National Lab, Brookhaven National Labs)

Location: TBA

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Track: Data Center BUILD

Session Type: Session

Vault Recording: TBD

Audience Level: All Audiences

Combining the expertise of Brookhaven Labs, Alfa Laval and Start Campus, the SINES DC facility, developed by Start Campus in Portugal is a 1.2 GW data center campus designed to be built incrementally across six buildings by 2030. Set to be Europe's largest and most sustainable data ecosystem, it leverages a cutting-edge sea water cooling system, which uses the ocean as a natural heat sink without consuming water. The project is set to use 100% renewable energy and targets an industry-leading PUE of 1.1.

This panel will discuss Phase 1, SIN01 which is designed to operate at up to 15MW of IT load in an air-cooled hall. The next stage of development for this site was the introduction of a Liquid Cooled Lab currently sized to be able to provide 1MW of IT load, allowing for the test of new cooling technologies such as direct-to-chip and Immersion. The possibility of operating at higher temperatures in liquid cooled systems means the ocean water may be used not just once in the air-cooled halls but again in the Lab providing the cooling for two very different systems from one water source whilst still maintaining the WUE of 0.

Takeaway

  • Real life site data
  • A new approach to the idea of hybrid data center design
  • Possibility to challenge what heat reuse could mean to a DC.