Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Sabey Data Centers is one of America’s largest privately-owned data center providers, with a portfolio of over 4 million square feet of mission-critical space. Many of Sabey’s colocation customers are now deploying high-density IT servers, which serve their Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High-Performance Computing (HPC) initiatives. These high-density deployments produce higher amounts of heat.
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers’ (ASHRAE’s) new H1 standards recommend a narrow temperature range of between 64.4°F to 71.6°F (18°C to 22°C) for cooling these environments.
Like most providers, Sabey has built its data centers in compliance with ASHRAE’s A1-A4 thermal standards, which recommend a wider temperature range of 64.4°F to 80.6°F (18°C to 27°C) for air-cooled data processing environments. The solutions for meeting ASHRAE’s H1 standards in A1-A4-designed facilities are often expensive and impractical. These might include:
- Lowering air cooling temperatures in the data center to the H1 temperature range, which increases cooling costs through increased use of electricity and water.
- Building a separate data hall for high-density IT deployments.
- Installing a facility-wide liquid cooling system, to serve what might be a small number of high-density IT servers in any facility.
A Self-Contained, Direct-To-Chip Liquid Cooling Solution
Sabey Data Centers is now recommending JetCool’s SmartPlate liquid cooling system to its customers with high-density IT deployments. The SmartPlate System is a self-contained, direct-to-chip liquid cooling system that can be installed on-demand in high-density server cabinets.
With the SmartPlate System, Sabey does not have to make any expensive upgrades to its facilities in order to provide liquid cooling to colocation customers who require it. Sabey does not have to lower the air cooling temperatures in its facilities. It does not have to build separate data halls, or install a facility-wide liquid cooling system in any of its data centers.
Benefits of Liquid Cooling for Sabey
Using a Dell PowerEdge R740XD server, Sabey conducted an evaluation of the SmartPlate System. Through this evaluation, Sabey chronicled the following benefits:
Efficient Power Utilization
The SmartPlate System’s liquid coolant uses cold plates to absorb heat directly from electronic components, which reduces fan speeds by eliminating the need for intense airflow. As a result, the Dell PowerEdge server showed a 13.5% decrease in power consumption, when measured against air-cooled servers.
Optimal Temperature Management
The SmartPlate System enables higher air intake temperatures, with a 32% reduction in temperature differential between the CPU and the inlet. This provides an additional reduction in cooling energy.
Operational Cost Savings
The SmartPlate System allows Sabey to save money through reduced electricity and water usage.
Capital Cost Savings
By recommending the self-contained SmartPlate System, Sabey is able to provide liquid cooling to colocation customers who need it – without having to make expensive renovations or upgrades to their facilities.
Sustainability
By reducing the energy used for IT cooling, the SmartPlate System helps individual data center facilities to achieve a lower Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating.
Benefits of Liquid Cooling for Colocation Customers
Effective Liquid Cooling
The SmartPlate System is a self-contained system that cools up to 850W in a 1U server, and 1,200W in a 2U server. Its patented microconvective cold plate uses arrays of fluid jets to target hot spots on high-density NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel chipsets.
Easy Integration and Scalability
Colocation customers can deploy SmartPlate’s self-contained, plug-and-play liquid cooling system in almost any high-density IT environment, even as they add servers to their footprint in Sabey’s data centers.
Maximum Server Density
With closed-loop liquid cooling, the SmartPlate System allows colocation customers to deploy as many high-density IT servers as they need. The 13.5% power consumption reduction means that colocation customers use less capacity. This opens more space in Sabey’s facilities, which allows companies to add more servers to their IT footprint.
Improved Chip Performance
By achieving lower temperatures, SmartPlate’s liquid cooling system allows high-density IT chips to do more computations, and increases server longevity.
Lower Operational Costs
Sabey is able to pass on the savings from reduced cooling costs to its colocation customers in the form of lower electricity rates.
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