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VERTIV ENHANCES TESTING
AND MANUFACTURING OF CHILLED WATER SOLUTIONS
Thermal Management facility in Piove di Sacco , Italy , increases testing and manufacturing capabilities to support the growing demand for chilled water-cooling solutions .
Vertiv , a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions , unveiled an upgraded testing room at its thermal management centre near Tognana , Italy .
The upgraded testing room will allow Vertiv to do standard and tailored tests of customer equipment , spanning all of the cooling solutions in its product portfolio – both air and watercooled , balancing a thermal load greater than 2MW with a chamber air temperature up to 55 ° C . Moreover , Vertiv will also be able to test units equipped with low global warming potential ( GWP ) refrigerants .
This upgrade comes at a critical time for the data centre industry . Operators are expanding rapidly to meet increasing capacity needs , while at the same time seeking to minimise their environmental impact . More than 100 European data centre operators and trade associations have signed The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact committing to climate neutrality by 2030 . Chilled water systems play a key role in helping reach this goal by enabling operators to upscale data centre capacity while simultaneously limiting direct and indirect emissions . These systems apply low-GWP refrigerants that enable significant reduction of direct and indirect CO 2 emissions , decreasing a data centre ’ s carbon footprint .
This sizeable investment significantly increases the facility ’ s testing capacity and manufacturing capabilities in the existing space , and demonstrates Vertiv ’ s ongoing commitment to the advancement of chilled water systems to help drive liquid cooling adoption . It also shows the company ’ s support of increasing demands on data centres , including high-performance computing , artificial intelligence ( AI ) and generative AI ( GenAI ).
“ Resource-efficient chilled water solutions are important to the sustainable growth of the data centre industry , and we must continue to focus on how we can evolve and improve the technologies for operators and the environment ,” said Karsten Winther , president EMEA at Vertiv . “ We are proud of the marketleading work we have achieved for our customers . For example , we worked with sustainability-focused co-location provider Green Mountain to deploy 5MW of high-efficiency chilled watercooling systems .”
“ In December , we will introduce our new Vertiv Liebert AFC High Capacity , Inverter Screw with low-GWP refrigerant chiller up to 2 200kW to the EMEA market . This new testing room will enable us to test these larger capacity units ,” said Roberto Felisi , senior director , Thermal Global Core Offering and EMEA business leader at Vertiv . “ We continue to explore opportunities to further invest in our capabilities to support projected growth and demand for thermal management systems , particularly liquid cooling solutions .”
To celebrate the expansion , Vertiv hosted an open day that featured activities offering insights into data centres and the significance of thermal management . RACA
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The Vertiv open day saw the facility launch .
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