Intel to build elaborate ‘mega-lab’ to trial new cooling technologies
Intel bets big on immersion cooling
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Intelis set to pump $700 million into a new ‘mega-lab’ focused on building next-generation immersion liquid cooling technology.
The 200,000-square-foot building will begin construction later this year at the company’s Jones Farm campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, with its opening expected in late 2023.
Immersion cooling enablesserversand other computing components to be submerged in dielectric liquid, which makes expensive data centre air conditioning unnecessary.
What will the lab do?
Aside from immersion cooling, the lab will also conduct research into water usage effectiveness and heat recapture and reuse
In addition, Intel said the lab will work on qualifying, testing and enabling Intel’s portfolio of data center anddedicated hostingproducts including Intel Xeon, Intel Optane, network interfaces and switch gear, Intel Agilex FPGAs, Xe architecture, Habana accelerators and other future products under development.
The new lab will also host an “advanced technology showcase” for customers and partners to observe and test Intel products in a variety of data center environments in the lab.
In addition, Intel has also released an open intellectual property (open IP) immersion liquid cooling solution and reference design
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Intel said the design will allow partners to accelerate the introduction of Intel solutions in response to the trend of increasing data center power density.
The initial solution and design proof of concept will be completed in partnership with Intel Taiwan and implemented across the Taiwanese ecosystem in a phased approach, with plans to scale out globally.
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Data center sustainability continues to be a pertinent issue.
Data centers represent approximately 1% of the global electricity demand and account for about 0.3% of global carbon emissions according to Intel’s own staistics.
Fuelled by growth during the Covid-19 pandemic, data center revenuewill reportedly touch $948 billionby the end of the decade, according to forecasts from data and analytics company GlobalData.
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