Everybody wants to increase their data center power output.
The compulsion toward densification, driven by AI adoption, GPU clusters, cloud scale-out, and HPC, has reached new heights. Operators are seeking to extract more computing capacity – and therefore revenue – from the same physical footprint, but this comes with a corresponding rise in thermal intensity.
As more heat is generated within the same space, both at rack and data hall levels, the challenge of heat rejection is pushing traditional air-based cooling and chiller systems toward their practical and thermodynamic limits.
To support rising rack power densities, operators must evolve their cooling strategies, with a new class of high-density air-cooled infrastructure emerging to address growing thermal constraints. After all, as Patrick Cotton, product management director at Airedale by Modine, puts it:
Cooling is a critical component of any data center, and there is significant pressure to deliver high-density solutions at scale – you simply can’t operate without it
