CREDIT: NORTEK DCC
NORTEK DCC
Bridging the gap You mention that liquid and air cooling do not have to be mutually exclusive. For legacy facilities hesitant to start from scratch, how do hybrid solutions like Reardoor heat exchangers( RDHX) serve as a practical, deployable bridge to liquid cooling?
While building liquid cooling solutions from scratch offers the greatest level of flexibility, which would serve operators best in the long term, we understand that existing facilities represent significant investments of time and resources. Hybrid cooling lets operators extend the lifecycle of current facilities, allowing them to evolve rather than replace existing infrastructure wholesale.
RDHX can create a practical path toward greater liquid adoption. We can add RDHX to existing racks to address higher-density loads in the meantime while allowing the facility’ s broader air-cooling system to remain in place.
By removing heat from the rack, RDHX can support higher-density deployments. As such, operators can introduce liquid cooling incrementally, targeting the racks with most urgent needs first rather than undertaking a disruptive, facility-wide retrofit.
The upshot of a hybrid approach is greater flexibility as densities change. Air and liquid can work in tandem, while operators update cooling strategies over time, responding to increasing workloads and rack densities.
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