New Cooling Tech Sparks Talk of Power Positive Data Centers
Orbis Electric has introduced a new Cooling Engine that aims to reshape how data centers manage heat as demand for AI and high performance computing continues to surge.
The system is built on the company’s HaloDrive technology, which uses an axial flux motor to capture energy that traditional cooling units waste.
By recovering power that would normally be lost, the Cooling Engine shifts cooling from a passive energy load into a source of efficiency gains.
The company says the system delivers up to twice the cooling capacity of legacy coolant distribution units while using a smaller footprint.
Orbis reports wire to fluid efficiency of up to 90 percent and projects that a single unit can generate as much as three million dollars in annual value in a 20 megawatt data hall through reduced power use, lower operating costs, and higher rack density.
The Cooling Engine is compatible with direct to chip cooling and aligns with Open Compute Project guidelines.
Orbis says the system can reduce cooling energy use by half and return up to eight percent of that energy as usable power, creating new capacity without grid expansion.
The design is purpose built for high density AI clusters. It consolidates pumping, cooling, and flow control into a single module that supports N plus one redundancy and fluid agnostic operation.
Orbis also cites environmental gains, including steep reductions in chiller load, emissions, and water use.
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