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Facebook Partners with Nortek Air Solutions in Sustainable Data Center Cooling Systems

Nortek Air Solutions, LLC is partnering with Facebook to deploy a ground-breaking cooling innovation that will improve the energy and water efficiency of data centers. Nortek will install its patented StatePoint Technology in an indirect liquid-to-air system for Facebook.

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The data center market is expected to continue to grow as cell phones, artificial intelligence and other smart devices grow world-wide, which will drive demand for cooling systems. Chillers and condensing cooling systems use a lot of energy and natural resources.

“It’s time for data centers to highly consider alternative technologies that will protect our environment,” explains Buddy Doll, President, Nortek Air Solutions. “This is why we are thrilled to work with Facebook who has been a leader in developing innovative data centers around the world.

StatePoint is designed to reduce water consumption 20% in hot and humid climates, 90% in cooler climates when compared to other indirect cooling systems. The technology provides Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) equal to or better than direct evaporative cooling.

The StatePoint system uses a liquid-to-air exchanger where water evaporates through a membrane separation layer to cool the data center. The liquid-to-air membrane exchanger prevents cross contamination between the water and air streams. With the addition of a pre-cooling coil, the system can maintain required cooling water and temperatures in humid climates without supplemental condenser based cooling.

StatePoint Technology offers flexibility in cooling delivery and can be connected to a variety of systems including fan coil walls, air handlers, in-row coolers, rear door heat exchangers, and chip cooling.

Since 2015, Nortek Air Solutions has worked closely with Facebook engineering team to develop a cooling solution to resolve the sustainability issues that face large data centers. “Most cooling technology used in data centers was developed for buildings with human occupancy,” says Doll. “We are focused on environmentally responsible, mission critical cooling solutions.

The installation of the new system at Facebook is expected to occur in the near future.
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