SWEX_Swep Exchange 2022

Liquid cooling

Minimising the impact of technology on the environment

he Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a worldwide T increase in homeworking. his has lead to even greater reliance on cloud computing as more data gets lodged somewhere in the stratosphere. Or so many of us believe. But actually of course, the data is stored in massive, energy-intensive data centres, all over the world. In July, Knight Frank, the global property adviser, released findings from their Data Centre Report 2021, that show the data centre market has experienced significant growth this year. The report, published in partnership with DC Byte, the leading data centre research and analytics platform, shows EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) markets have seen take-up rise by 4 percent, to 120MW with a 10 percent increase in new supply overall, totalling more than 180MW. In APAC (Asia Pacific) total supply increased by just under 200MW, reflecting a similar pace to 2020 take up – recorded at just over 800MW – making total supply 5800MW across the region.

Data handling is big business throughout the world. Business Development Manager at SWEP, Christer Frennfelt explains how liquid cooled data centres can minimise their environmental impact.

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