Critical cooling specialist launches 1MW Coolant Distribution Unit

Airedale by Modine, the critical cooling specialists, has launched a coolant distribution unit (CDU), in response to increasing demand for high performance, high efficiency liquid and hybrid (air & liquid) cooling solutions in the global data center industry.

The Airedale by Modine CDU will be manufactured in the US and Europe and is suitable for both colocation and hyperscale data center providers who are seeking to manage higher-density IT heat loads. The increasing data processing power of next-generation central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs), developed to support complex IT applications like artificial intelligence, result in higher heat loads that are most efficiently served by liquid cooling solutions. The CDU is the key component of any liquid cooling system, isolating facility water systems from the IT equipment and precisely distributing coolant fluid to where it is needed in the server / rack. Delivering up to 1MW of cooling capacity based on ASHRAE W2 or W3 facility water temperatures, Airedale’s CDU offers the same quality and high energy efficiency associated with other Airedale by Modine cooling solutions.

Developed with complete, intelligent cooling systems in mind, the CDU’s integrated controls communicates with the site building management system (BMS) and system controls, for optimal performance and reliability. The ability to network up to 8 CDUs makes it a flexible and scalable solution, responsive to a wide range of high-density loads. Manufactured with the highest quality materials and components, with N+1 pump redundancy, the Airedale CDU is engineered to perform in the uptime-dependent world of the hyperscale and colocation global data center markets.

Richard Burcher, Liquid Cooling Product Manager at Airedale by Modine said,

“Our investment in the liquid cooling market strengthens Airedale by Modine’s position in the data center industry. We are seeing an increasing amount of enquiries for liquid cooling solutions, as providers move to a hybrid cooling approach to manage low to mid-density and high-density heat loads in the same space.”

Richard continued,

“Airedale by Modine is a complete system provider, encompassing air and liquid cooling, as well as control throughout the thermal chain, supported with in-territory aftersales. This expertise in all areas of data center cooling affords our clients complete life-cycle assurance.”