Shell Liquid Cooling Fluids: Improving efficiency in high-performance computing
Discover how Shell’s innovative Liquid Cooling Fluids can help data centres and other facilities meet the growing demands of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing while achieving their operational and environmental goals.
What are liquid cooling fluids?
Liquid cooling fluids are an efficient way to absorb and dissipate the heat generated by electronic components – especially those used in computers and data centre hardware.
Liquid cooling fluids are dielectric, which means they do not conduct electricity and do not corrode the equipment, making it safe to submerge electrical equipment in them.
Solutions
Benefits of Liquid Cooling Fluids
Better performance
By transferring heat more efficiently than many air-cooling techniques (which use refrigerated air, fans and heatsinks), liquid cooling fluids can support overclocking and increase CPU speeds by up to 40%.1
More efficient operations
With no need for coolers, chillers, fans or evaporative cooling systems, liquid cooling fluids can help businesses cut the floor space needed to host their computing equipment by up to 80%.1
Greater energy efficiency
Liquid cooling fluids almost eliminate the need for the power-hungry air-based cooling systems, helping to reduce the energy footprint of a computing facility by up to 48.1
Increased profitability
By reducing electricity consumption and the need for intricate heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, immersion cooling fluids can reduce a data centre’s total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 33%.1
Easier to scale
As data centres expand to meet the growing demands of high-end computing, immersion cooling fluids offer an easier way to add scale and enable increased locational flexibility.
Supporting Operational Goals
Liquid cooling fluids are designed to support operational and energy efficiency, helping businesses address their performance and energy-management objectives. In certain applications, CO₂ emissions reductions of up to 30% have been reported.¹
Meet Shell MIDEL and Shell MIVOLT
Complementing the Shell Liquid Cooling Fluid portfolio are the Shell MIDEL and Shell MIVOLT product ranges.
Shell MIDEL transformer fluids combine fire resistance3 with ester base oils that meet ready biodegradability criteria, as determined by OECD 301 test methods. Shell MIVOLT offers ester-based immersion cooling fluids.
What’s new
An industry first
Shell Immersion Cooling Fluids are now certified by Intel for use with 4th Gen and 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors in data centres worldwide.
Working together to lower the carbon footprint of big data
Intel, Submer and Shell are collaborating to advance immersion cooling technology.
Paving the way
Shell IT deploys immersion-cooled HPC cluster within its Houston data center, with help from AMD and Penguin.
Advancing immersion cooling with our partner Asperitas
Delivering an energy efficient HPC cluster upgrade in Amsterdam.
Future of Sustainable Data Centers
Penguin Solutions, NVIDIA, and Shell Case Study.
Featured collaborations
Shell is proud to innovate alongside and collaborate with the strongest players in the Liquid Cooling space. Learn more about the ways Shell is working with key market leaders.
Disclaimers:
1 Figures based on: Global immersion cooling market in data centres – growth, trends and forecast (2019–2024) report (Mordor Intelligence) and Shell’s internal evaluations. Benefits achieved will vary according to actual site development.
2 Than conventional methods such as coolers, chillers evaporative coolers, fans and bearings.
3 Shell MIDEL 7131 meets IEC 61099 and ASTM D8240 specifications, K3 Class. Shell MIDEL eN 1204 and Shell MIDEL eN 1215 meets IEC 61039 and ASTM D6871 specification, K2 Class. K classification transformer liquids have a high fire and flash point, and are less flammable. These properties can prevent a transformer fire and help save property, people and the surrounding environment. FM Approved, UL classified.
