Iceotope’s revolutionary liquid cooling technology
results in cooling power cost savings of 97%
The assets of
Sheffield-based company Iceotope, producers of the first truly scalable modular
liquid cooling platform, have been bought by a consortium including the
original engineering team, backed by a seven figure investment sum.
Original inventor, and newly appointed CTO, Peter Hopton led the fund-raising
to acquire the technology and the IP.
Iceotope has a patented
approach to dramatically reduce power consumption in data centres by tackling
the problem of cooling servers at the source of the heat – at component
level. Iceotope licenses this technology to vendors, helping them to
reduce the cooling requirements in their servers and electronics. The
electronic components are sealed inside giant heat-pipes containing an
ultra-convective fluid, so that all generated heat can be captured in water and
efficiently removed, without heating up the surrounding data centre
environment.
Hopton is famous for
pitching his green IT technologies on the TV programme Dragons’ Den.
Despite being turned down by the Dragons when he pitched his company VeryPC,
Hopton has now successfully secured investment for Iceotope – originally a
VeryPC spin off – allowing him to take over as CTO of Iceotope while becoming
the Executive Chairman at VeryPC.
Iceotope servers can reduce
facility operating costs and carbon output with their unique thermal cooling
technology. Data centres can save 20% of power consumption at the server
level and make a saving of 97% of costs associated with cooling power, an
overall reduction of over 50% for the typical data centre.
With Iceotope servers, the
components are encapsulated in 3M Novec, an inert and environmentally sound
coolant, and all waste heat generated from the servers is used to passively
pump the coolant solution through the system by encouraging a state of ultra-convection,
thus removing the need for fans, chillers and airflow. Iceotope then
transfers this heat to outside of the data centre and the heat can even be
repurposed to heat other office spaces.
“With the data centre
industry growing by 12% each year, data centre providers are struggling to keep
up with demand for higher efficiency and higher density, while keeping power
consumption and costs to a minimum, said Peter Hopton, CTO of Iceotope.
“Iceotope’s unique technology can help data centre providers to save half of
all overall electricity costs compared to an average data centre.
“According to IDC,
approximately 40 percent of today’s data centre costs are power-related,
however, by 2015, this figure will exceed 50 percent,” continued Hopton.
“In order to attempt to combat these escalating costs, many companies are
looking to drastic measures to improve their cooling efficiency, such as moving
their data centres to the Arctic Circle. Iceotope technology makes this
move obsolete, as this unique liquid cooling technology allows full-time free
cooling everywhere on the globe. Liquid cooling has safely been used for
decades in data centres, Iceotope offers the next generation in liquid cooling
to server operators.”
About Iceotope
Iceotope Ltd, registered in
Guernsey, is a technology company that researches and develops liquid and phase
change cooling solutions based around heat pipe encapsulation. The
company’s CTO Peter Hopton, the original inventor of Iceotope technology,
secured a seven figure investment in order to purchase the assets of VC-backed
Iceotope Ltd of England, which entered administration in October 2011. Hopton was not a part of the management team
at this time. Iceotope is the next
generation platform for cooling electronics and servers, encapsulating high
performance electronics within heat pipes containing ultra-convective
coolant. Iceotope coolant engulfs and
protects the electronics, cooling effectively to component level with no air
flow, delivering full time free cooling, everywhere.
Press contacts
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+44 207 401 7968
06 Dec 2011
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