Liquid immersion and direct-to-chip cooling technologies are experiencing substantial yearly market growth exceeding 30%.
The Worldwide Data Center Construction Market – Focused Insights 2023-2028 report highlights challenges faced by mega data center projects in obtaining approvals to utilize water for cooling purposes.
As a result, operators and vendors are joining forces to create innovative systems that can reduce water consumption in data centers by up to 50%.
The data is gathered from a wide range of sources, including industry reports, government statistics, and company financials. Among the list of vendors in the report include data center operators such as 21Vianet Group (VNET), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apple, China Telecom, Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS), Compass Datacenters, CyrusOne, Digital Realty, EdgeConneX (EQT Infrastructure), Equinix, GDS Services, Global Switch, Google, Iron Mountain, Meta (Facebook), Microsoft, NTT Global Data Centers, QTS Realty Trust, STACK Infrastructure, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, Vantage Data Centers, 3data, Africa Data Centres, AirTrunk, Aligned, American Tower, AQ Compute, Aruba, AtlasEdge, atNorth, AT TOKYO, BDx (Big Data Exchange), Bulk Infrastructure, Bridge Data Centres, CDC Data Centres, Chayora, China Mobile, Chindata, CloudHQ, Cologix, COPT Data Center Solutions, CtrlS Datacenters, Cyxtera Technologies, Data4, DataBank, DC BLOX, Element Critical, ePLDT, eStruxture Data Centers, fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547), Flexential, Green Mountain, H5 Data Centers, HostDime, KDDI (Telehouse), Keppel Data Centres, LG Uplus, maincubes one, MainOne (Equinix), Milicom (Tigo), NEXTDC, ODATA, Orange Business Services, Prime Data Centers, Princeton Digital Group (PDG), Proximity Data Centres, Raxio Group, Rostelecom Data Centers, Sabey Data Centers, Scala Data Centers, Sify Technologies, Skybox Datacenters, Stream Data Centers, SUNeVision (iAdvantage), Switch, T5 Data Centers, Tenglong Holdings Group, Teraco (Digital Realty), TierPoint, Turkcell, Urbacon Data Centre Solutions, Wingu, Yondr and Yotta Infrastructure (Hiranandani Group).
For the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, the report mentioned that it is among the world’s most dynamic and fastest growing data center markets.
Immersion cooling technology has been gaining traction in APAC with South Korean company KT Cloud having recetnly inked a deal with Immersion 4 to incorporate immersion cooling technology into their data centers.
Earlier in May, data center providers in Japan, KDDI and NTT Data, have been exploring liquid immersion technology to significantly reduce the energy wasted on cooling server hardware.
Iceotope Technologies Limited (“Iceotope”) last year announced the closing of a £30m funding round from a global investment syndicate led by Singapore-based private equity firm ABC Impact. Iceotope specialises in precision immersion cooling technology which reduces the energy and water required in cooling data centre servers.