Analysis of geothermal cooling for data centers

数据中心对我们的世界至关重要——从小型服务器机房到企业数据中心和运行云计算服务的服务器场**。在数字内容、大数据、电子商务和互联网流量爆炸式增长的推动下，全球对更多数据中心的需求正在迅速增长。这一趋势使数据中心成为世界上增长最快的电力消费者之一，估计占全球电力消耗的1%至2%。降低数据中心能耗的最有效方法是降低数据中心冷却的电力需求，因为仅冷却系统就可能占数据中心平均能源需求的40%。**CanShield（加拿大盾数据中心）拥有40年的IT行业经验，正在为数据中心开发一种**创新的地热冷却系统。地热冷却系统将显著提高数据中心的可持续性和能源效率。UBC奥肯那根大学的电子冷却与多相流实验室将与CanShield合作进行这项拟议的研究项目，重点研究地热系统的两个主要组成部分——两个热交换器的分析。目的是确定两个热交换器的关键参数并确定设计空间。**拟议的研究项目将减少数据中心的能源消耗，减少空调的使用，从而减少二氧化碳的排放，避免消耗臭氧的制冷剂。提出的**研究将为建立依靠地热冷却的绿色数据中心开辟巨大的潜力。该项目符合加拿大和其他192个联合国成员国于2015年9月通过的《2030年可持续发展议程》。

Data centers are essential to our world -- from small server rooms to enterprise data centers and server farms**that run cloud-computing services. Driven by the explosion of digital content, big data, e-commerce, and**Internet traffic, the demand for more data centers is rapidly growing throughout the world. This trend makes**the data centre sector one of the fastest-growing consumers of electricity in the world, which is estimated to**account for 1% to 2% of the global electricity consumption. The most effective way to reduce data center**energy consumption is to reduce the power requirement of data center cooling, as the cooling system alone may**account for up to 40% in average of the energy demand of a data center.**CanShield (Canadian Shield Data Center), with 40 years of experience in the IT industry, is developing an**innovative geothermal cooling system for data centers. The geothermal cooling system will significantly**increase the sustainability and energy efficiency of data centers. The Electronics Cooling & Multiphase Flows**Lab at UBC Okanagan will collaborate with CanShield on the proposed research project focusing on the**analysis of two heat exchangers, which are the two major components of the geothermal system. The objective**is to identify key parameters and determine design spaces of the two heat exchangers.**The proposed research project will reduce energy consumption of data centers and reduce the use of air**conditioning, thereby reducing CO2 emission and avoiding ozone-depleting refrigerants. The proposed**research will open up great potential of building green data centers relying on geothermal cooling. The project**fits into the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that Canada and 192 other UN member states adopted**in September 2015.