Airedale by Modine has launched a coolant distribution unit (CDU) to meet increasing demand for high-performance, high-efficiency cooling solutions in the global data centre industry.
The CDU is a critical technology enabler for liquid and hybrid liquid and air-cooling systems that manage next-generation IT applications.
Modine president & CEO, Neil Brinker, said Modine's investment in developing CDUs advances their strategy to expand their global data centre product offering and capture market opportunities to meet long-term growth targets.
"This technology strengthens Modine's position in the rapidly growing data centre liquid cooling market, providing our customers with advanced solutions to support the next generation of high-density, accelerated computing applications, such as generative artificial intelligence and machine learning,” he said.
The CDU expands the innovative solutions Airedale by Modine can offer throughout the thermal chain with air, liquid, and hybrid cooling systems.
Modine Climate Solutions president, Eric McGinnis, said the CDU is a core part of Modine’s strategy to provide a complete range of products, software, and service capabilities for the data centre industry.
While the market for traditional air-cooling products in data centres is set to continue its growth trajectory, he said liquid cooling will start to enter the market as an additional growth area.
“At Modine, we believe that many operators will adopt a hybrid cooling approach, with liquid cooling technology complimenting air-based systems to target pockets of higher-density IT loads,” McGinnis said.
“The CDU is a critical component in these kinds of cooling systems and we're excited to bring it to market."
The CDU is suitable for both colocation and hyperscale data centre providers seeking to manage higher density IT heat loads.
The increasing data processing power of next-generation central processing units and graphics processing units result in higher heat loads that are most efficiently served by liquid cooling solutions.
The CDU is the key component of any liquid cooling system, isolating facility water systems from the IT equipment and distributing coolant fluid to where it is needed in the server or rack.
Delivering up to 1MW of cooling capacity and operational at supply temperatures of up to 30°C (86°F) in a secondary water loop system and 26°C (79°F) in a primary loop structure, Airedale by Modine's CDU offers the same quality and high energy efficiency associated with the brand's other cooling solutions.