Review Article

Immersion cooling technology development status of data center

Hefei General Machinery Research Institute Co, Ltd., Changjiang West Road 888, Hefei 230031, China

^* Corresponding author: 841142342@qq.com

Received: 10 January 2024
Accepted: 22 March 2024

Abstract

With the continuous development of data centers and information technology equipment, data center energy consumption continues to increase, China’s data center energy consumption has accounted for 4% of the power consumption of society as a whole, while the data center cooling system accounts for 30–50% of the data center energy consumption. At the same time, with the development of new high-energy chips, the traditional cooling methods have been unable to meet the requirements of IT equipment cooling, so how to reduce the energy consumption of data centers, especially the cooling system energy consumption, and to meet the cooling requirements of data centers with high heat flux density is becoming the focus of research in the field of data centers. In order to solve the data center cooling system of high energy consumption and high heat flow density needs, immersion cooling technology came into being, this paper is mainly on the data center immersion cooling technology research, and the use of the current situation is introduced and explained, compared to the single-phase immersion cooling technology and two-phase immersion cooling technology cooling principle, the current state of development and use of the prospects for elaboration, while the data center immersion cooling system waste heat utilization is explored, providing readers with a wide range of data center cooling system. At the same time, the utilization of waste heat in the data center immersion cooling system is discussed, providing readers with extensive and detailed background knowledge of data center immersion cooling technology.