Date published
20 May 2025
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Iceotope's VP of Products, Neil Edmunds, was featured in an article from Data Center Dynamics on the role the liquid cooling plays in edge computing.
"Proponents of liquid cooling say it is particularly suited to Edge deployments because it is easier to install than air-based systems. This could make converting an abandoned building, for example, much easier, Edmunds says.
'There may not be very much space to put an external heat rejection system of traditional size and scale for an air-cooled facility,' he explains. 'So typically, certainly for Iceotope and I would presume for other liquid-cooled technologies, the outdoor infrastructure needed for heat rejection of liquid-cooled designs to air is much more compact than air-to-air infrastructure.
'On typical data centers, you have huge cooling towers that evaporate loads of water, big air-to-air heat rejection systems, or a fresh air system to blow through. All of these things are going to be very challenging to deploy at the Edge because they usually come with tons of filtration, lots of space requirements, and potentially lots of power requirements to operate them. The need for a compact, almost portable, deployable heat rejection system is going to be pretty important to enable people to utilize previously occupied spaces which are now abandoned.'”
To read more, visit: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/liquid-cooling-the-edge-of-reason/