by Shane Henson — October 23, 2013—European data center manufacturer Minkels, part of the public company Legrand, announced it will soon bring to market two new water-based ariCondition cooling units for data centers. These units can be placed between “row-based” data center racks.
The VariCondition H2O-316 and Varicondition H2O-650 water-based cooling units complement Minkels’ existing Varicondition portfolio of data center cooling solutions, which include the Next Generation Cold Corridors that can deliver directed, cool airflow with little power consumption, the company says.
VariCondition H2O-316 was designed to be an ideal cooling solution for companies with decentralized server rooms. Varicondition H2O-650 is particularly well-suited for cooling high density applications in commercial data centers. The Minkels research and design department has added features to these systems based on customer input and tailored to meet specific customer needs.
According to Minkels, the introduction of these new data center cooling systems coincides with the increasing demand for row-based water cooling, which is accomplished by placing water-based cooling units between the racks in the data center.
“The need for row-based water cooling has increased in recent times,” says Vincent Liebe, Minkels’ senior product manager. “This has to do with the increased density in data centers. The energy density per rack has increased significantly this past year, both in server rooms at SMEs and at commercial data centers.”
