required significant innovation and partnership from both NTT and Johnson Controls. The company developed free cooling screw chiller technology that allowed NTT to transition away from traditional water-cooled systems while maintaining best-in-class efficiency.
“ Their environmental leadership created the perfect testing ground for next-generation cooling solutions,” explains Anthony“ Efficiency and environmental stewardship aren’ t competing priorities any more, but they’ re actually complementary advantages.”
Johnson Controls’ value proposition extends beyond individual products to what Anthony describes as comprehensive thermal management“ from chip to chiller, covering the entire thermal continuum in a data centre.” of change render these numbers and approaches obsolete, with gigawattscale projects now under consideration.
Against this backdrop, Johnson Controls is intensifying its focus on efficiency optimisation.“ Today, the scale of these projects is significantly larger, especially as we’ re starting to look at gigawatt-type campuses,” says Jeffrey.“ After twenty years in the data centre industry, the one constant is it’ s constantly changing.”
“ We’ re intensifying our innovation focus on creating the most efficient thermal chain possible,” concludes Anthony.“ Our goal is straightforward – drive the lowest PUE achievable, so our customers can dedicate more revenue to what matters most to them, the computing power in their racks, rather than the infrastructure supporting it.”
This end-to-end capability has become increasingly critical as the industry transforms. Jeffrey recalls that when he entered the sector in 2005, a five-megawatt facility was considered massive and cooling was treated like air conditioning. Today, the scale and pace
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