Designing an alternative to conventional room cooling

Abstract

Recently technology advances have driven the power densities of electronics to unprecedented levels but unfortunately central office and data center infrastructure technology advancements have not kept pace. Trends indicate that room densities for both central offices and data centers will jump from less than 1000 W/m 2 to densities of over W/m 2 in the near future This paper will discuss a new technology that enables room coding capacities to exceed the needs of the next generation of electronics. The paper will focus on the design, development and verification testing of this system which was deployed in a full-scale prototype data center and demonstrated capacities as high as 5000 W/m 2 .