Airedale takes data centre cooling control to US
31st July 2024
UK/USA: Airedale by Modine has launched its Cooling System Optimizer data centre cooling controls system in the US.
First launched in Europe in 2022, the Optimizer is able to manage chilled water loops of up to 20MW in a market with increasingly complex chilled water systems.
The Optimizer is an intelligent controls layer that sits between product controls in chillers and CRAHs and below the site BMS. It is programmed to unify indoor and outdoor cooling equipment to proactively manage the three most important things in any data centre cooling system: resilience, redundancy and energy use.
Leveraging the benefits of primary ring chilled water cooling systems as well as remaining compatible with primary/secondary systems, the Optimizer is designed to manage dynamic variable flow systems to consistently deliver on critical SLAs, at the lowest possible energy input.
Delivery of Optimizer systems in the US will be managed by a new, dedicated controls team based out of the North America Data Center headquarters in Rockbridge, Virginia, and backed by the global controls team in the UK.
“The US is an incredibly important market for us and we are seeing increasing demand for more intelligent software,” said Airedale controls director Reece Thomas. “Airedale controls systems manage over 200MW of data centers across Europe and that is only set to grow, with the Optimizer proving extremely popular in larger data centres with variable flow cooling systems. With a dedicated US controls team, we can support our local and global customers with the high levels of service we are renowned for.”
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