Market Trends of Immersion Cooling Industry In Data Centers
Edge Computing to Witness Major Growth
- In the forecast period, organizations are expected to witness rapid growth in IP-connected mobile and machine-to-machine (M2M) devices, which handle significant amounts of IP traffic. The demand for faster Wi-Fi service and application delivery from online providers is expected to rise. Some M2M devices, such as autonomous vehicles, require real-time communications with local processing resources to ensure safety.
- The deployment of edge data centers benefits many new technologies, including fifth-generation (5G) networks, IoT and IIoT devices, virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence and machine learning, data analytics, autonomous vehicles, and video streaming and surveillance.
- The emergence of 5G wireless infrastructure has urged data center operators to opt for edge computing infrastructure to work with networks offering lower latency and higher resiliency. Multi-access edge computing (MEC) aids network services in connecting to users closely.
- Hence, the demand for efficient edge data centers is expected to be augmented by many factors, including the introduction of 5G technology worldwide and the growing trend of autonomous or self-driving vehicles and smart cities. According to Intel, the projected global autonomous vehicle registration share in 2024 is 0.49%; by 2030, the registration share is expected to reach 12%.
- However, a key requirement of large-scale edge computing roll-outs will be low operating costs. In edge deployments, immersive liquid cooling provides dramatic energy-saving benefits. The reliability and no-touch features of liquid cooling solutions will match the need for extended mean time to maintenance and longer intervention intervals for viable operation and management of remotely located equipment.
- Artificial intelligence (AI), a part of the digital transformation for many enterprises, is anticipated to impact data center management, productivity, and infrastructure significantly. The global data center construction industry is also booming, as increasing cloud adoption fuels new opportunities in big data and IoT investment, leading to more hyper-scale data centers.
- AI and big data analytics require a high cooling power, encouraging many liquid immersion and cooling vendors to partner with OEMs to improve their offerings. Enterprises must leverage their IT infrastructure strategically and creatively to gain a competitive advantage. Immersion cooling effectively reduces power consumption while maintaining performance across high-density workloads like AI applications.
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North America to Hold Significant Market Share
- The data center investors are investing in direct-to-chip cooling and liquid immersion solutions. The emergence of 5G networks worldwide facilitates the importance of edge data centers, and the United States is among the earliest adopters of the technology. Many operators in the United States, such as EdgePresence, EdgeMicro, and American Towers, have started investing in these centers.
- The mobile data traffic in the United States increased considerably over the years, from 1.26 exabytes per month of data traffic in 2017 to 7.75 exabytes per month of data traffic by 2022, as reported by Cisco Systems. According to Ericsson, this data traffic is expected to triple further by 2030. Thus, the distributed cloud that may secure the low latency and high bandwidth required to easily connect at such a scale is coming into action.
- The United States is witnessing a substantial increase in internet usage. The country is the largest data center operations market, and it continues to expand due to the higher data consumption by end users. The popularity of the Internet of Things (IoT) is driving the US hyper-scale data center market, leading to additional facilities that can support exabytes of data generated by business users and consumers.
- Switch partnered with Dell and FedEx to deploy edge data center facilities in the United States. DataBank, a colocation service provider, invested USD 30 million in EdgePresence, an edge data center provider in the United States, to collocate their customer workloads to edge centers to reduce latency in their services.
- According to the Site Selection Group, a global location advisory provider, economic incentive, corporate real estate services, and air-cooled systems, it reached its maximum economic cooling capability in the region. As more data centers aim to pack racks to capacity, liquid cooling becomes a more viable solution.
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