"No matter from the perspective of policy, market demand or technology maturity, data centers have entered the 'liquid cooling era'." At the "2022 Data Center Liquid Cooling Technology Seminar" held recently, Lv, Secretary General of China Electronics Energy Saving Technology Association said that the rise of liquid cooling technology has brought infinite possibilities for data centers to save energy and reduce consumption.
According to reports, liquid cooling technology refers to the technology that uses liquid instead of air as a refrigerant to exchange heat with heating components and take away heat. The technology dates back to the 1980s. In the 1990s, some communication equipment has applied liquid-cooled base stations. With the advent of the cloud computing era, data centers require higher power and large-scale deployment. The concept of liquid cooling has been formally proposed, and the liquid cooling technology has gradually matured.
At present, with the rapid development of data centers, the rapid growth of energy consumption has become a problem that cannot be ignored in the development of the data center industry. The full launch of the "DONG SHU XI SUAN" project has put forward higher requirements for data center energy conservation and consumption reduction. From the perspective of market demand, the traditional air cooling technology can no longer meet the timeliness requirements of data center cooling. The computing power of the data center is determined by the chip, but as the power consumption of the mainstream chips of the entire server continues to increase, the power density of a single cabinet will increase from the current 4KW and 6KW to 15KW and 20KW. The traditional air cooling technology has been greatly affected. limits. The liquid cooling technology can not only meet the development needs of high density and low energy consumption in the data center, but also drive the optimization and innovation of various configurations and components in the data center, bringing about a continuous optimization reform.
