Keeping it Cool
Data Foundry designed the cooling infrastructure at Texas 1 to conserve energy, withstand load increases and provide consistent high performance. Texas 1 utilizes a chilled water cooling system that supports any power density, while consuming significantly less electricity than conventional air-cooled systems.
A Flexible Design to Cool Any Configuration
Texas 1′s chilled water system is the ideal cooling system for today’s High Performance Computing (HPC) demands. Data Foundry provides custom cooling options to meet your specific requirement.
Optimum Cooling ConfigurationCustom Cooling Solutions
- “Standard” ‹ 8kw
- Chimneys ‹ 25kw
- Hot Aisle Containment ‹ 30kw
- Cold Aisle Containment ‹ 30kw
- Rear door heat exchangers (RDX) ‹ 60kw
- Custom chilled water to cabinet cooling – sky is the limit
High Performance Computing Loves Chilled Water Cooling Systems
Chilled water cooling is the only cooling system design that effectively cools HPC environments due to its ability to quickly respond to load changes and higher air delta Ts.
Reliability and Redundancy at Every Level
With a 100% concurrently maintainable design, Texas 1’s chilled water cooling system can isolate any problem or maintenance task to be serviced without reduction to overall performance or risk of system failure.
Texas 1 Redundant Water FeedsReliability
- Dual-independent water utility sources, including a 48-inch main source located 12 feet underground
- Dual feeds enter the Data Ranch campus via underground, concrete encased water lines
- Dual feeds connect to Texas 1′s chilled water system via diverse paths
100% Concurrently Maintainable
- Paralleling water lines connect water flow between the chilled water pumps and the towers and chillers providing increased redundancy and concurrent maintainability
- Extensively looped, bi-directional chilled water system provides the highest level of reliability in these systems
Texas 1 Cooling System Technical SpecsDownload the full Texas 1 Spec Sheet
- Six 550 ton York chillers (N+1) with fast restart
- 24,000 cfm chilled water CRAHs (Computer Room Air Handlers) in N+3 configuration
- 150,000 gallon water storage for continued operation in the event of a utility outage
