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There’s no Submer without sustainability. Driven by our mission to build sustainable datacenters and lead the way to a greener future, minimizing our environmental impact is at the heart of every decision that we make.
BENEFITS
Planet-Friendly Cooling
The sustainable benefits of immersion cooling are the best way to hit your sustainability benchmarks and build a climate-resilient datacenter.
Reduce Energy Consumption
Bring your mPUE down to 1.03 and PUE to 1.1 with our immersion cooling solutions.
Reduce Water Consumption
With a 1MW DC using 6.6 gallons of water per year, it's time to leverage our solutions to reduce both your direct and indirect water consumption.
Heat Reuse Capabilities
Immersion cooling offers 100% heat capture from liquid in direct contact with your equipment, marking it as the best cooling technology for datacenter heat reuse.
Biodegradable SmartCoolant
Our biodegradable immersion cooling fluid has a lifespan of 15 years and a Global Warming Potential (GWP) of 0.
Optimize HW Lifespan
The removal of moving parts, dust, vibrations, and sudden temperature changes equates to a more stable environment for your hardware.
Optimize Space
Increase your density per square foot by up to 361 kW per tank for both greenfield and brownfield scenarios.
Building a Green & Efficient Datacenter Industry
The sustainable benefits of immersion cooling reach far and wide. In 2023 alone, our customers minimized their CO2, energy and water footprints by leveraging our immersion cooling technology.
Energy Savings
527 Megawatt-Hours
Energy savings with customers PUE where available; default PUE is 1,1 compared to 1.55 for air cooling.
Uptime Institute
Water Savings
2M Cubic Meters of Water
Comparing WUE of 1.8L/kW (based on the average from 2016).
Avoided GHG Emissions
274K Tons of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent
GHG emissions are calculated using the customer’s country grid data sourced from the Science Based Target Symapro database.
GHG Reporting
Explore Submer’s carbon footprint for 2023, covering scopes 1, 2, & 3. This detailed reporting lets us measure our impact on the climate and identify the causes.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Still got questions for us?
What services does Submer provide?
At the evaluation phase, we combine our experience in fluid and IT HW to reduce your barriers to adoption. We help you understand the technology and how it can help you to achieve your specific goals.
At the design phase, we find the right solution for each customer, location, and use case.
At the implementation phase. we ensure the success of your immersion cooling adoption journey. This includes commissioning activities, training, and more.
You have our full support at the operation stage with our immersion cooling solutions.
Is immersion cooling sustainable?
Immersion cooling is the most sustainable form of liquid cooling:
- It reduces power and direct & indirect water consumption, therefore reducing CO2 emissions.
- It lets your infrastructure operate at higher temperatures, providing more free cooling time.
- Higher power density leads to less real estate needed.
- Immersion cooling fluid is non-toxic, biodegradable, GWP=0, and it can be recycled.
- It protects the hardware from degradating agents such as dust, moisture and vibrations, which plays in favor of its lifespan.
Keep reading about the sustainable benefits of immersion here.
Is single-phase immersion cooling fluid toxic?
Submer’s validated fluids are non-toxic, synthetic fluids designed for immersion cooling. Some handling and operation guidelines must be taken into consideration, which are detailed in the safety data sheets.
How does immersion cooling reduce water wastage?
The fact that the cooling infrastructure can operate at higher temperatures provides more opportunities for free cooling, therefore direct water consumption can be reduced to zero (depending on the location and operating conditions).
More efficient and less demanding cooling infrastructure leads to reduced energy consumption, which positively affects the indirect water consumption. Keep reading about immersion’s effect on water consumption here.
How do I implement heat reuse in my immersion-cooled datacenter?
Virtually all the heat generated by the IT is transferred into a single body of immersion fluid, which will be circulating through one of the sides of a liquid-liquid heat exchanger. The heat is transferred to a closed water loop circulating on the other side of the heat exchanger. This hot water can be used straight away for heat reuse applications if its temperature is high enough – depending on IT hardware selected and operating conditions – or it can go through a Heat Recovery Unit (HRU), which is a equipment designed to guarantee optimal energy recovery by adjusting the water temperature.
Depending on the availability requirements of your datacenter and the SLAs with the heat offtaker, a standard heat rejection system may be needed.
Find out more about how to apply heat reuse in your datacenter here.