Enhanced modular data center accelerates AI and
compute-intensive workloads at the edge with integrated heat
capture systems for external reuse
HPE Discover 2024 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:
HPE) and Danfoss today announced their collaboration to deliver HPE
IT Sustainability Services – Data Center Heat Recovery, an off-the
shelf heat recovery module, helping organizations manage and value
waste heat as they transition towards more sustainable IT
facilities.
The rapid integration of AI technologies across organizations
and businesses is expected to have a dramatic increase in the power
demand and utilization of AI optimized IT infrastructure. According
to the International Energy Agency, by 2026 the AI industry is
expected to have grown exponentially to consume at least ten times
its electricity demand in 20231. To mitigate these challenges, IT
leaders and data center facility operators are taking action to
reduce energy usage, such as implementing modern power-efficient
capabilities and improved cooling systems. Waste or excess heat2
from data center cooling represents an estimated 2,860 TWh/y,
almost equal to the EU’s total energy demand for heat and hot water
in residential and service sector buildings3. The flow of excess
heat from data centers is uninterruptible and therefore constitutes
a very reliable source of clean energy.
To address these issues, the new energy efficient data center
solution from HPE and Danfoss offers:
- HPE’s scalable Modular Data Center (MDC), in the form of
small footprint, high-density (kW/rack) containers, can be deployed
nearly anywhere in the total absence of heavy industry and
incorporates technologies such as direct liquid cooling, reducing
overall energy consumption by 20%.
- Danfoss’ innovative solutions, including heat reuse
modules that capture excess heat from data centers to provide
renewable heating onsite and to neighboring buildings and
industries for various applications, and Turbocor® oil-free
compressors that enhance data center cooling efficiency by up to
30%.
“Our strategic partnership with HPE is a great example of how we
revolutionize building and decarbonizing the data center industry
together with customers,” said Jürgen Fischer, President, Danfoss
Climate Solutions. “With this latest cross-industry partnership
we’re building the blueprint for the next generation of sustainable
datacenters – using technologies available today.”
Benefits and agility of modularity
HPE’s MDC incorporates direct liquid cooling (DLC) technologies
to enhance energy efficiency by over 20% and optimize energy
production and distribution, leading to notable energy savings. The
design’s compactness minimizes energy loss by reducing the distance
for energy and cooling fluid transport and maximizes the
temperature differential at the inlet and outlet, which promotes
the capture of waste heat. Furthermore, the MDC’s agility and the
exclusion of heavy industrial materials negate the need for costly,
conventional building materials and substantially reduces the time
to market. Deployment can be achieved three times quicker than with
traditional data centers, decreasing from 18 months to as few as 6
months. Finally, the reduced land footprint and flexibility of the
MDCs allow for placement in proximity to data generation sites,
which diminishes the energy impact and bottlenecks associated with
complex networking solutions and data transfer, while also
supporting enhanced data governance and security.
“At HPE, we believe in the power of collaboration to create
transformative solutions,” said Sue Preston, Vice President &
General Manager, WW Advisory & Professional Services &
Managed Services, HPE. “Our partnership with Danfoss brings
together HPE’s innovative modular data center with Danfoss’
groundbreaking heat reuse technology. Together, we are not just
adding value; we are multiplying it. By harnessing the typically
untapped resource of waste heat, turning waste into worth, showing
the future of energy usage is efficient, intelligent, and, most
importantly, achievable now.”
With unparalleled density, HPE’s modular data centers offer an
impressive power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.14 in contrast to
the PUE of 1.3 to 1.4 typically associated with the best modern
designs of traditional brick-and-mortar data centers. Capable of
handling the most power-demanding architectures like HPE Cray
Supercomputing EX4000, HPE’s modular data center is the adequate
architecture for mission critical and compute-intensive workloads
like supercomputing and generative AI, enabling scientists,
universities, and enterprises to achieve faster outcomes.
From chip to chiller: driving innovation in
decarbonization
To leverage excess heat – one of the largest untapped sources of
energy and the largest potential for data centers across Europe,
HPE has partnered up with Danfoss as their decarbonization partner.
The strategic partnership takes advantage of Danfoss’ extensive
product portfolio of energy-efficient solutions to drive
innovation, support decarbonization and build the blueprint for the
next generation of sustainable modular data centers.
HPE IT Sustainability Services – Data Center Heat Recovery is
inspired by how Danfoss is already using heat reuse technology at
its own headquarters campus in Denmark. Here, the heat is recovered
from Danfoss’ onsite data center, boosted by a heat pump, and
re-used in surrounding buildings to provide space heating. The heat
can also be fed into the local district heating network to provide
a renewable heat source to local residents. Reusing heat is a major
part of Danfoss’ own decarbonization strategy which has helped
Danfoss achieve carbon neutrality in the energy system of its
250,000m2 campus in Nordborg in 2022.
The new scalable modular data center offering leverages Danfoss
technologies, including Turbocor® compressors for heat pumps and
chillers, heat exchangers, heat reuse modules, drives and pump
skids allowing data centers to be cooled up to 30% more efficiently
while recovering and reusing excess heat. It’s a modular solution
with components that work together seamlessly and includes two
technology stack options with a heat recovery system, including
hydronic heat recovery heat exchanger and water-water heat pump,
recovering heat from an air-cooled edge-to-cloud modular data
center today and potentially second phase liquid cooled HPC modular
data center.
As part of its holistic “Reduce, Reuse, Resource” approach,
Danfoss also partners with HPE to retire its end-of-use IT assets
through HPE Asset Upcycling Services, a circular economy solution
that enables technology refurbishment and reuse, while recovering
economic value from those assets.
Availability
HPE IT Sustainability Services – Data Center Heat Recovery is
available to order immediately.
Additional Resources
- HPE and Danfoss unveil Heat Recovery Solution for Enterprise
Environmental Goals by Pascal Lecoq, Worldwide Director,
Sustainable Data Center Modernization at HPE
- UK Government invests £225m to create UK’s most powerful AI
supercomputer with University of Bristol and Hewlett Packard
Enterprise
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise builds AI supercomputer for CRIANN
to accelerate scientific research and innovation
- Danfoss solutions for datacenters
- Danfoss paper on decarbonization of data center industry
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global
edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes
by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on
decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way
people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent
technology solutions as a service. With offerings spanning Cloud
Services, Compute, High Performance Computing & AI, Intelligent
Edge, Software, and Storage, HPE provides a consistent experience
across all clouds and edges, helping customers develop new business
models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance.
For more information, visit: www.hpe.com.
About Danfoss
Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity,
reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable
electrification. Our solutions are used in such areas as
refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor
control, industrial machinery, automotive, marine, and off- and
on-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for renewable
energy, such as solar and wind power, as well as district-energy
infrastructure for cities. Our innovative engineering dates back to
1933. Danfoss is family- and foundation-owned, employing more than
40,000 people, serving customers in more than 100 countries through
a global footprint of 95 factories. www.danfoss.com.
_______________ 1 Electricity 2024 - Analysis and forecast to
2026 (iea.blob.core.windows.net) 2 Excess heat, also called surplus
heat or waste heat, can be reused through existing and well-proven
technologies, most notably heat pumps. 3 Excess heat - Danfoss
Impact Issue no. 2 4 When using Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC)
technologies.
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Pia Beltrao Hansen pia.hansen@danfoss.com
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