ITI’s The Green Grid Releases New Online Tool to Right-Size Data Center Cooling Units
WASHINGTON – Today, The Green Grid (TGG) released a new online tool to help data center designers, operators, and users select the appropriate coolant distribution unit (CDU) for servers in their data center. The CDU Sizing Tool (opens in a new tab) calculates the necessary fluid temperature, total flow rate, and total pressure drop across cold plates in a cooling loop. It serves as a preliminary guide to facilitate better understanding and communication between data center buyers and sellers, helping to reduce the learning curve and bridge the knowledge gap in selecting the appropriate CDU size for a server.
As an affiliate of the global tech association the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), TGG works globally to create tools, provide technical expertise, and advocate for the optimization of energy and resource efficiency of data center ecosystems in order to enable a low carbon economy.
“As the world’s demand for data centers continues to grow rapidly, it’s imperative their owners and operators make them as energy efficient as possible. This new online tool will provide critical information to help key decision makers select the best CDU size for servers in their data center, reducing the risk of installing excess capacity and thereby keeping energy use as efficient as possible,” said ITI Vice President of Environment, Sustainability, and Regulatory Policy Chris Cleet.
The CDU Sizing Tool provides stakeholders with key information to help advance energy efficiency for data centers. It helps prospective data center buyers gain insights into the sizing requirements of CDUs to make informed financial and technical decisions. For end users, the tool can estimate the appropriate CDU for their installation and provide recommendations to suppliers, ensuring their server architecture is adequately supported. For OEMs and integrators, the tool can accurately size and select a CDU to match their specific server designs.
The CDU Sizing Tool can be found on TGG’s website in the on-line tools section (opens in a new tab).
Please direct any questions about this project to tgg-secretariat@thegreengrid.org.