GlobalConnect claims to be the first colocation provider in Europe to offer immersion-based cooling to customers, and expects to expand the service to all of its datacenters in future.
"The original design had just one CDU . Although that had a redundant pump setup - the piping, feeds, and heat exchanger were all single points of failure, so we developed a configuration with two CDUs - one connected to dry coolers for optimal energy efficiency, and the other connected to our tier 3 cooling ring."
Submerged cooling reduces the amount of power required for keeping infrastructure cool by up to 90 percent compared to conventional air cooling systems, GlobalConnect says. This should, in theory at least, allow the company to pass along savings to colocation customers. "Submerged cooling is a real game changer that will change the market in the coming years, and we already see a high interest from our customer base,” said GlobalConnect Group’s Managing Director for Datacenters Luke Davies.