Designing an alternative to conventional room cooling

Recently technology advances have driven the power densities of electronics to unprecedented levels, but unfortunately central office and data center infrastructure technology advancements have not kept pace. Trends indicate that room densities for both central offices and data centers will jump from less than 1000 W/m ² to densities of over 3000 W/m ² in the near future. This paper discusses a new technology that enables room cooling capacities to exceed the needs of the next generation of electronics The paper focuses on the design, development and verification testing of this system which was deployed in a full-scale prototype data center and demonstrated capacities as high as 5000 W/m ².