Datacenter Cooling Focus on HPC

The UK is ranked third in terms of global data centre installations by energy use and UK data centre energy requirements are roughly equivalent to the total output of two nuclear power plants. As such, the industry is also a major producer of greenhouse gases and energy costs are a significant issue for data centres. The possibilities of using natural ventilation cooling to maintain required process conditions for current electronics mean a revolution in thinking about cooling, analogous to the Passivhaus revolution in building construction. In their search for free cooling, some large data centres are moving to cold climates; for example Facebook is planning a new centre in northern Sweden, highlighting how much of an issue this has become. Will this take another industry away from the UK or can we find alternative cooling systems that compete? At this event, key industry figures from ASHRAE, Hitachi and EcoCooling introduce and evaluate current changes in cooling strategy and implementation. A major focus of the event will be analysing the development and optimisation of natural ventilation, and the technology available, over the past decade. Keynote Speaker: Ian Bitterlin, CTO, Emerson Network Power Systems EMEA