HPE is working with engineering company Danfoss on a new package to help data center operators recover waste heat.
It will see HPE’s scalable modular data center (MDC) products combined with Danfoss heat reuse solutions.
The new product, HPE IT Sustainability Services – Data Center Heat Recovery, is an “off-the-shelf heat recovery module” designed to help organizations “manage and value excess heat as they transition towards more sustainable IT facilities,” according to the vendors.
“Our strategic partnership with HPE is a great example of how we revolutionize building and decarbonizing the data center industry together with customers,” said Jürgen Fischer, president of Danfoss Climate Solutions.
“With this latest cross-industry partnership we’re building the blueprint for the next generation of sustainable data centers - using technologies available today.”
HPE says its MDC units are small-footprint, high-density containers that can be deployed nearly anywhere in the total absence of heavy industry. They incorporate direct liquid cooling and other technologies, which HPE says can reduce overall energy consumption by 20 percent. The units can apparently achieve a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.14.
These can now be paired with a range of Danfoss solutions, such as heat reuse modules that capture excess heat from data centers to provide renewable heating onsite and to neighboring buildings, and Turbocor oil-free compressors that can enhance data center cooling efficiency by up to 30 percent, Danfoss claims.
Sue Preston, vice president and general manager for WW Advisory, professional services and managed services at HPE said the companies can “multiply value” for their clients by “harnessing the typically untapped resource of waste heat, turning waste into worth, showing the future of energy usage is efficient, intelligent, and, most importantly, achievable now.”
Danish business Danfoss is also a client of HPE, and uses HPE GreenLake for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, in its data centers.
Its heat reuse technology scored a high-profile client earlier this year when it was revealed it was providing cooling and heat reuse systems for Google data centers.
