The Chemours Company will undertake a full-scale product trial with NTT DATA and a leading regional engineering firm Hibiya Engineering Ltd.
The trial will focus on two-phase immersion cooling and follows successful lab tests using Chemours' advanced dielectric fluid, Opteon 2P50.
This announcement marks an important step in the product commercialisation process, which includes lab trials, field trials, equipment specification, customer selection, and ultimately commercial contracts and sales.
The product trial was designed to address the growing data centre energy and cooling gap. and sustainability.
Kouhei Kurotaki, deputy manager of the Technology Consulting Division at NTT DATA Japan said Opteon 2P50 directly addresses the growing heat generation and energy use challenges facing data centres.
The field trial will engage a wide range of industry participants from data centre operators, equipment manufacturers, and engineering design firms to IT vendors and research institutions.
Izabela Jasinska, Liquid Cooling Venture Leader, said that as AI adoption grows and next generation graphics and central processing chips become the standard, traditional cooling technologies simply cannot keep up.
“We developed Opteon 2P50 specifically for data centres, to not only increase the performance and efficiency criteria, but also to dramatically reduce the environmental footprint of data centres around the globe,” Jasinska said.
Opteon 2P50, Chemours’ developmental dielectric thermal management fluid, has an ultra-low global warming potential of 10 (AR6).