Sustainability is now a key design criteria for data centers and the ecosystem that supports them. Integration of sustainable practices in operation, construction, delivery, and energy stream management is creating a new category of "sustainable, hyperscale, data center ecosystems" where liquid cooled ITE, heat reuse, and energy innovation create a zero water use + carbon negative data center environment.

This session’s discussion will provide a review of OpenCompute Project best practices and reference designs in liquid cooling, integration of heat reuse applications, and carbon reduction applications with a case study example of success in action.

OpenCompute Cooling Environments Project is a collaboration of the global IT industry, creating guidance, reference designs, and best practices to enable deployment of liquid cooled ITE (immersion, cold-plate and door HX) and data center heat reuse.

Wyoming Hyperscale White Box provides a case study that has contributed to OCP and demonstrates best practices in deploying liquid cooled ITE at scale, with optimized efficiency, sustainability, and minimized cost.

Takeaway

• Best practices in sustainable construction – DfMA, minimized jobsite carbon and waste reduction
• Data centers as a sustainable energy ecosystem – zero carbon energy sources + carbon offset from energy reuse = negative carbon footprint
• Liquid Cooled ITE as a new standard practice — OpenComputeProject advances