| |JANUARY 20249Some of these market pressures even conflict with need for data and processing power, while power supply one another. Businesses have a seemingly infinite and capacity in key locations are very much finite. Digital inclusion--the idea of providing equitable access to digital technologies to everyone--fuels economic opportunity for marginalized communities, while those same communities weigh the resource impact of data center projects that bring technology closer to them.Network and application outages can have a devas-tating impact on businesses and individuals, but enter-prises' budgets to invest in additional redundancy or disaster recovery measures are constrained. Regula-tions on sustainability and data center operating tem-peratures carry new complexity and cost, while gov-ernments also compete for economic growth engines. There are tremendous growth opportunities for digi-tal capabilities within emerging markets, but serving those regions requires overcoming limitations with existing infrastructure and navigating challenging environmental factors.Even as macroeconomic tides rise and fall, digital demand isn't slowing down. Innovation is continually needed to help balance these forces--and liquid cooling is one way to help tackle some of the challenges of cooling high-density deployments.The Promising Role of Liquid CoolingLiquid cooling is revolutionizing how data centers cool the powerful high-density hardware that supports emerging technologies. It is not only a mechanism to efficiently dissipate heat from servers; it presents the opportunity to reduce the power required by elimi-nating the need to run server fans for air cooling. Dell Technologies reported that 18 ­ 23percent less power is required when utilizing direct liquid cooling technolo-gies for similar workloads.Liquid cooling also enables a dematerialization benefit: Consolidating more compute power into fewer racks means less equipment to buy, operate, and eventually replace. Placing power-dense servers in closer proximity to each other enables more efficient use of the data center space. As each generation of chips delivers exponentially more power per rack, expanding server densities, liquid cooling is an increasingly necessary cooling mechanism.Lastly, liquid cooling introduces new possibilities in navigating industry standards for data center operating temperatures as enterprises seek infrastructure that will reliably scale within broader temperature ranges.The Future of High-Performance Data CentersLiquid cooling is just one of the tools we have available to address new power, cooling, and hardware efficiency requirements as we design for the next era of data center infrastructure. The data center of the future will balance reliability and sustainability needs, be optimized for customer requirements, and offer the flexibility to meet today's market demands.Market pressures will continue to evolve, but the need for efficiency and innovation will always push data center providers to serve their customers in new ways. Liquid cooling supports wider data center operating temperatures and more efficient energy use, as well as addressing space constraints in high-density data center deployments.Liquid cooling enables effective heat reuse by delivering higher quality and higher temperature heat that can easily be recovered and transported.F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, "The test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." Similarly, the ability to balance competing pressures requires a thoughtful vision for accelerating into the future while steadily navigating current constraints.Regulations eventually act as forcing functions, but leading companies are constantly innovating and exploring technologies and partnerships well in advance. With the right infrastructure strategy and data center provider, navigating these dynamic variables can deliver a strategic advantage--optimizing growth potential, limiting risk, and optimizing costs.For many workloads and applications, HPC enabled by liquid cooling is likely to become one of many must-have infrastructure components for tackling these new market pressures and staying competitive in today's digital world. Liquid cooling enables effective heat reuse by delivering higher quality and higher temperature heat that can easily be recovered and transported
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