Digital infrastructure company Equinix has announced plans to expand support for advanced liquid cooling technologies—like direct-to-chip—to more than 100 of its International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in more than 45 metros around the world, including those in Toronto, Calgary and Kamloops.
The company said this builds on its existing offering that supports liquid-to-air cooling, through in-rack heat exchangers, available at nearly every IBX today. This expansion, it said, will enable more businesses to use the most performant cooling technologies for the powerful, high-density hardware that supports compute-intensive workloads like artificial intelligence (AI).
“We have seen an increase in demand for data-intensive and high-compute applications like AI,” said Sean Graham, research director, cloud to edge datacentre trends at IDC. “The hardware required to run these new applications is pushing up densities inside data centres and can no longer be efficiently cooled by traditional techniques.
“We are seeing a growing demand for liquid-cooled solutions from enterprises, and it is essential that data centre providers, like Equinix, can support this next generation of cooling solutions.”
