Data Centre Cooling Demand Grows Danfoss’ Business by 10%
- arryawke
- Mar 4, 2015
- 1 min read
Increasing need from government agencies, big companies and the banking sector to store their data is pushing up demand for data centre cooling solutions by 27% a year, according to Danfoss.
The demand for energy efficient data centre cooling solutions that use less power and reduce carbon emissions is increasing Danfoss’ business by 10% a year alone. For example, Apple recently announced investment of around £1.2 billion in two new data centres in Europe. The data centres will be powered using renewable energy.
Data centres currently use around 2% of all electricity generated worldwide. Between 20% and 60% of a data centre’s lifetime operating costs can be the cost of the power to run it. Keeping it cool is a big proportion of those operating costs.
Jürgen Fischer, President of Danfoss Cooling Segment, says:
“Government agencies, banks and large companies need to ensure stabile systems around the clock, which makes reliability and energy efficiency key priorities.”
Danfoss states that it is working with some ‘climate solutions providers’ in the UK where the cooling units containing Danfoss compressors save nearly a third off the annual energy costs. Another example from Danfoss is its work with Inertech, an IT infrastructure company in the US, where its solutions can cut energy costs by up to 90%, it claims. The solution uses a ‘free cooling cycle’.
The heat removed from data centres is not wasted either. Danfoss uses the example of the Apple data centre in Viborg, Denmark, where the heat from the data centre feeds into a local district heating scheme to heat homes.
