Modular cooling blocks revolutionize data center energy usage
Data centers are a lynchpin of our modern economy. Server rooms power small- to medium-sized businesses, enterprise data centers support major corporations, and server farms host cloud computing services. Keeping up with the explosive growth of digital content, big data, e-commerce, and Internet traffic is making data centers one of the fastest growing consumers of electricity in developed countries.
In fact, data centers use nearly 2% of the world's supply of electricity at any given time, and 37% of that amount is used to keep computing equipment cool1. Not only is this a drain on the power grid, but it also taxes water supply. A 15-megawatt (MW) data center can use up to 360,000 gallons of water a day2 — that’s more than half the water in an Olympic-size swimming pool.