Intel And Dell: Sustainable Computing With Immersion Cooling
Dell News, Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
Together, Intel and Dell Technologies continue to enable innovations that improve lives, increase productivity and unleash creativity. With every generation of processors, energy efficiency is increasing: more computations can be performed per watt of electricity needed by the servers.
However, the demand for compute performance is insatiable, leading to processors being designed to run at higher wattages to meet the performance demand.
Cooling these higher thermal design power (TDP) processors becomes a challenge from both a technology and energy consumption standpoint. Traditional cooling systems, which consume up to 40% of a data center's energy consumption, weren't designed to eliminate the higher amount of heat generated. Cooling the data center through immersion technology enables cooling higher TDP parts while being more sustainable through reduced electricity (and water) consumption.