DCW Green Data Centre showcases data centre solutions in a live setting

The fourth Data Centre World in Singapore has introduced a 'live’ data centre, the DCW Green Data Centre, in Asia for the first time.

Housing products from 21 sponsors, the DCW Green Data Centre features products typically required for data centres such as batteries, cooling units and fans, as well as cables and raised flooring.

The DCW Green Data Centre at Data Centre World Asia hosts 21 sponsors.

At the entrance to the DCW Green Data Centre. Watching demos in an actual data centre setup feels extremely different from watching the same demo in an exhibition booth on the showfloor. There was a lot of interest in the different exhibits on show.

What the outside of a green data centre looks like.

Each sponsor is featured on an explanatory poster with product highlights, a booth number and contact details.

This exhibit showcased the Starline Track Busway, an electrical power distribution system.

A demonstration of the Chloride power system drew a small crowd.

Allied Control demonstrated an immersion cooling system at the DCW Green Data Centre. According to the company, immersion cooling is 4,000 times more efficient at removing heat than air. 

In a two-phase immersion cooled system, electronic components are submerged into a bath of dielectric heat transfer liquids, which are much better heat conductors than air, water or oil. With their various low boiling points (49°C compared to 100°C for water), the fluids boil on the surface of heat-generating components and rising vapour passively takes care of heat transfer. In contrast to submersion oil cooling, liquids are clean, environmentally friendly and non-flammable. No heat sinks, pumps and jets are required to keep hardware cool. Circulation happens passively by the natural process of evaporation and without spending any extra energy. Compared to traditional air, water or oil cooling, this passive process results in the use of much less energy, Allied Control says.

It took three days to set up the data centre. Sponsorships for the 2017 edition of the data centre are open.

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