The company and its collaborators will illustrate use of cutting-edge sea water cooling technology to achieve leading sustainability capabilities in data center operations

Lisbon, Portugal – October 14, 2024 – Start Campus, a company focused on designing, building and operating a new generation of sustainable data centers, announces today that it will present a case study along with collaborators from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Alfa Laval at JetCool’s Pavilion as part of the 2024 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, taking place October 15-17, 2024, in San Jose, CA. This Summit will bring together leaders from across the open IT Ecosystem development industry to connect on manifesting innovative ideas into practical realities to foster progress in the data center industry.

Set for October 16, 2024, Start Campus will present findings of a research paper featuring the company’s SINES DC project as a case study. This Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (“IEEE”) research paper is titled, Advancing Sustainability in Data Centers: Evaluation of Hybrid Air/Liquid Cooling Schemes for IT payload using Sea Water.

The paper focuses on advancing sustainability in data centers through innovative cooling systems that leverage ocean water for both air and liquid cooling. As cloud computing, AI and HPC continue to grow, data centers face rising energy demands and power constraints, particularly for high-performance GPUs. With cooling consuming up to 40% of a data center’s energy, innovative solutions are essential. While air cooling is the standard in the industry, underutilized free-cooling sources like sea water, river water and aquifers offer significant operational efficiencies. This study, based on Start Campus’ SINES DC facility, evaluates the performance of air-only and hybrid air/water cooling systems using seawater. The results show that these cooling methods improve energy efficiency, reduce CO2 emissions and support sustainability goals without depleting or damaging natural resources.

SINES DC was selected for inclusion in the paper as a case study thanks to Start Campus’ ability to deploy high-density hybrid air and liquid cooling deployments at the site while harnessing the cooling power of the ocean, reducing the overall energy footprint and setting a standard for future data centers. As a result, SINES DC, now the largest data center development underway in Europe, will deliver a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1 while using 100% renewable energy and a WUE of 0.0.

Start Campus will present the findings from this paper in detail during a joint presentation session with Brookhaven Lab, Alfa Laval and JetCool at the OCP Global Summit Expo Hall Stage. Highlights of the scheduled presentation include the carbon and flow savings made possible by Start Campus’ unique design, leveraging ocean cooling water among other technologies to enable innovative liquid cooling deployments at its SINES DC.

WHAT: Advancing Sustainability in Data Centers: Evaluation of Hybrid Air/Liquid Cooling Schemes for IT payload using Sea Water

WHERE: SJCC – Concourse Level – Expo Hall Stage

WHEN: Wed, October 16, 10:40am – 10:55am

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To learn more about Start Campus and the SINES DC project, visit: https://www.startcampus.pt/en.

For more information about the 2024 OCP Global Summit, visit: https://www.opencompute.org/summit/global-summit.

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About Start Campus

Start Campus is developing the SINES DC project, a 1.2 GW data center campus in Portugal, creating one of Europe’s largest and most sustainable data ecosystems with market-leading global connectivity. SINES DC provides maximum optionality for customers with powered shell, turn-key and build-to-suit solutions. The company’s advanced offer is AI-ready and addresses the future needs of the industry by integrating liquid cooling technologies into its flexible and scalable design. With a total combined investment value of €8.5bn, the project is set to use 100% renewable energy and targets an industry-leading PUE of 1.1. Start Campus will be Net Zero by 2030. For more information, visit www.startcampus.pt.

About Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven National Laboratory is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, visit science.energy.gov.

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Start Campus Media Contact:

iMiller Public Relations for Start Campus
Ilissa Miller
Tel: +1 866-307-2510
Email: startcampus@imillerpr.com