Sustainability Magazine January 2022 | Page 308

Using naturally cold water for cooling global data centres is sustainable , environmentally friendly , and it enables high-performance compute for a greater future use of technology
NAUTILUS DATA TECHNOLOGIES
Using naturally cold water for cooling global data centres is sustainable , environmentally friendly , and it enables high-performance compute for a greater future use of technology

Nautilus Data Technologies prides itself on its technology that is able to cool data centres with naturally cold water , instead of using water which has been mechanically chilled . Owing to the abundance of naturally cold water in locations across the world , data centres can also be placed in a wide variety of locations globally .

Company CEO , James Connaughton explains : “ Our preferred sites for data centres are brownfields because they ’ re perfect for large industrial watercooling systems . They also help create new jobs , as well as digital infrastructure for those communities which are left behind in terms of digital transformation . And at the same time this means we can be closely located in the environments the sector needs to serve .”
The current issue is that infrastructure needs to support hotter , faster servers and use naturally cold water to cool data centres in a more sustainable way of doing so .
Connaughton added that in order to roll this out , Nautilus works with regional and global partners on the capability to deliver these systems and empower them to work with the company to deliver these systems .
“ Our goal is not to keep the technology just close to us , but help build facilities that are successful and find a way to get the entire sector to transform into a much more sustainable method of operations and engagement with the local community ,” he stresses .
Company CEO , James Connaughton
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