Progressive liquid-cooling retrofit for general data centers

Scenario analysis

Unable to shut down and rebuild

  • Long-running critical services leave limited shutdown windows
  • Full retrofit involves power distribution, cooling, cabinets, and other systems

Air-cooling efficiency becomes insufficient

  • High-heat-density cabinets easily create local hotspots
  • Air-cooling heat dissipation approaches its bottleneck

Data center PUE remains high

  • Fans and airflow organization consume large amounts of power
  • Cooling-system efficiency struggles to meet green data center requirements

Retrofit budget is limited

  • Building a new liquid-cooled room requires high investment
  • Existing servers and cabinet resources need to continue being used

Solution architecture

System architecture for progressive liquid-cooling retrofit in general data centers

Solution value

No motherboard architecture changeReduces equipment replacement cost and accelerates liquid-cooling adoption
Supports phased upgradesExpands from a single cabinet and flexibly matches business demand
Hybrid air-liquid operationLiquid cooling works with air cooling to reduce retrofit risk
Lowest retrofit costMakes full use of existing equipment room infrastructure