MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC
Cooling demand offers sustainability and revenue opportunities
Data centres are projected to double in capacity by 2030, to serve the massive demands of artificial intelligence (AI), hyperscale operations and cloud computing.
The industry is also transitioning from Central Processing Units (CPUs) to the growing use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), which are critical for data-intensive computing – producing even more heat and requiring different ways of reducing that heat, such as liquid cooling.
At the same time, the data centre industry is searching for new routes to sustainability and as a result, a new metric has emerged as a critical benchmark: the Energy Reuse Factor (ERF), which measures how effectively a data centre recycles and reuses its waste energy for purposes outside its primary operations.
One way to demonstrate this is to capture waste heat and reuse it in other buildings, either to produce hot water or in larger-scale heat networks, so we need to make it easier to reuse that otherwise wasted energy.
This is why we have launched a new Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU) into our extensive product portfolio, which is designed to act as an interface between modern liquid cooling servers and systems that reuse heat.
The new ME-CDU builds on our long standing expertise in IT Cooling and unwavering commitment to quality. The new Coolant Distribution Unit is engineered to deliver exceptional stability, precision and continuity in liquid cooling for modern high density data centres.
Designed to operate seamlessly within hybrid cooling architectures, the unit provides direct thermal extraction from the most demanding components, while air based systems such as the Mitsubishi Electric MEWALL or w-MEXT-XL, manage residual loads and environmental conditions to ensure optimal energy performance across the entire facility.
The ME-CDU offers capacities from 750kW to 1.2MW and is designed specifically with the latest high density, high temperature servers in mind. The unit operates nominally with a Technology Cooling System (TCS) at 34°C / 24°C and a Facility Water System (FWS) at 20°C / 30°C - creating many opportunities for heat reclaim and reuse.
Air-cooled systems will remain vital for full environmental control of a data centre, but we are going to see liquid cooling solutions become the gold standard. The increased use of GPUs means even more heat creation, and this can now be turned into a sellable asset.
Heat networks are expected to provide a fifth of all heat by 2050 offering significant opportunity and cany data centre operators have realised the potential for a new revenue stream by feeding into local heat networks around their centre
This urgent need to cool down the next generation of servers is opening the way to a more sustainable future for data centres, underlining their role in the broader context of climate neutrality and energy efficiency.
As society aims to decarbonise heat and reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, data centres have a real opportunity to be part of a low-carbon future, by delivering lots of heat that will be useful for heat networks, such as campus heating on university sites, or estate heating for hospitals or business parks.
The technology to achieve this already exists in the form of advanced, modern heating and cooling systems that make the reuse of data centre waste heat much more achievable.
Recently, the UK government published its Warm Homes Plan (WHP) which focuses predominantly on renewable heating for residential properties. However, it also emphasises the importance of heat networks, which offers a real revenue opportunity for heat generating sectors that can feed into these networks.
To date, the UK hasn’t maximised heat network potential and the WHP explains how the government will be unlocking low-carbon heat networks, by setting a target to more than double the amount of heat demand met via heat networks in England to 7% (27TWh) by 2035.
Heat networks are expected to provide a fifth of all heat by 2050, which offers significant opportunity to any data centre operator that can link into such a network.
The government is also driving investment through the Green Heat Network Fund with £195 million allocated per year to 2029/30. As we see an increase in the use of GPUs, the potential revenue becomes even more apparent.
At Mitsubishi Electric, we are here to support data centre operators wanting to capitalise on these opportunities.
If you would like to know more about our range of data centre cooling solutions, visit https://les.mitsubishielectric.co.uk/end-users/application-by-sector/data-centres
Data centres are projected to double in capacity by 2030, to serve the massive demands of artificial intelligence (AI), hyperscale operations and cloud computing.
The industry is also transitioning from Central Processing Units (CPUs) to the growing use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), which are critical for data-intensive computing – producing even more heat and requiring different ways of reducing that heat, such as liquid cooling.
At the same time, the data centre industry is searching for new routes to sustainability and as a result, a new metric has emerged as a critical benchmark: the Energy Reuse Factor (ERF), which measures how effectively a data centre recycles and reuses its waste energy for purposes outside its primary operations.
One way to demonstrate this is to capture waste heat and reuse it in other buildings, either to produce hot water or in larger-scale heat networks, so we need to make it easier to reuse that otherwise wasted energy.
This is why we have launched a new Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU) into our extensive product portfolio, which is designed to act as an interface between modern liquid cooling servers and systems that reuse heat.
The new ME-CDU builds on our long standing expertise in IT Cooling and unwavering commitment to quality. The new Coolant Distribution Unit is engineered to deliver exceptional stability, precision and continuity in liquid cooling for modern high density data centres.
Designed to operate seamlessly within hybrid cooling architectures, the unit provides direct thermal extraction from the most demanding components, while air based systems such as the Mitsubishi Electric MEWALL or w-MEXT-XL, manage residual loads and environmental conditions to ensure optimal energy performance across the entire facility.
The ME-CDU offers capacities from 750kW to 1.2MW and is designed specifically with the latest high density, high temperature servers in mind. The unit operates nominally with a Technology Cooling System (TCS) at 34°C / 24°C and a Facility Water System (FWS) at 20°C / 30°C - creating many opportunities for heat reclaim and reuse.
Air-cooled systems will remain vital for full environmental control of a data centre, but we are going to see liquid cooling solutions become the gold standard. The increased use of GPUs means even more heat creation, and this can now be turned into a sellable asset.
Heat networks are expected to provide a fifth of all heat by 2050 offering significant opportunity and cany data centre operators have realised the potential for a new revenue stream by feeding into local heat networks around their centre
This urgent need to cool down the next generation of servers is opening the way to a more sustainable future for data centres, underlining their role in the broader context of climate neutrality and energy efficiency.
As society aims to decarbonise heat and reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, data centres have a real opportunity to be part of a low-carbon future, by delivering lots of heat that will be useful for heat networks, such as campus heating on university sites, or estate heating for hospitals or business parks.
The technology to achieve this already exists in the form of advanced, modern heating and cooling systems that make the reuse of data centre waste heat much more achievable.
Recently, the UK government published its Warm Homes Plan (WHP) which focuses predominantly on renewable heating for residential properties. However, it also emphasises the importance of heat networks, which offers a real revenue opportunity for heat generating sectors that can feed into these networks.
To date, the UK hasn’t maximised heat network potential and the WHP explains how the government will be unlocking low-carbon heat networks, by setting a target to more than double the amount of heat demand met via heat networks in England to 7% (27TWh) by 2035.
Heat networks are expected to provide a fifth of all heat by 2050, which offers significant opportunity to any data centre operator that can link into such a network.
The government is also driving investment through the Green Heat Network Fund with £195 million allocated per year to 2029/30. As we see an increase in the use of GPUs, the potential revenue becomes even more apparent.
At Mitsubishi Electric, we are here to support data centre operators wanting to capitalise on these opportunities.
If you would like to know more about our range of data centre cooling solutions, visit https://les.mitsubishielectric.co.uk/end-users/application-by-sector/data-centres
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