PRESS RELEASE
ST. LOUIS, MO (August 2, 2021)— RackBank® Hyperscale Datacenter Platform, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, is collaborating with U.S.-based Nortek Data Center Cooling, St. Louis, to use the HVAC equipment manufacturer’s StatePoint® liquid cooling technology in data centers across India.
The collaboration’s first deployment of StatePoint technology will be at RackBank’s upcoming GigaCampus platform, a massive first phase, 180 MW project that will foster growing Asian economies and companies with its state-of-the-art, digital IT infrastructure. The unique project will serve as a future-secured platform for data-driven companies to thrive in a 100% clean energy facility with zero carbon footprints.
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StatePoint technology will help RackBank reach its sustainability goals, because it boasts a global-leading partial power usage effectiveness (pPUE) and water usage effectiveness (WUE) as low as 1.05 and 0.09, respectively, depending on local climate conditions.
The refrigerant-free StatePoint’s cutting-edge indirect evaporative methodology and its patented microporous membrane heat exchange process, historically reduce water consumption in data centers by up to 90-percent versus traditional chilled water cooling technology. Consequently, StatePoint technology will help position RackBank as a data center industry leader in conserving one of India’s most limited natural resources.
“Nortek has recently worked with a prominent social media hyperscaler and its StatePoint yielded better results than any other cooling technology,” said Narendra Sen, RackBank’s founder and CEO. “StatePoint technology capabilities will not only help us attain our sustainability goals, but also conserve water, which is a scarce resource in India.”
“We are thrilled to partner with RackBank on their upcoming projects with our state-of-the-art StatePoint technology to support their aggressive PUE and WUE targets,” said Kevin Facinelli, President, Nortek Data Center Cooling. “This partnership helps to expand our Asian data center market, which is growing the fastest.”
StatePoint will also be the preferred cooling solutions provider in RankBank’s 500MW PAN India expansion plans in Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Pune and other Indian cities. Construction is expected to start in late 2021 at the Chennai GigaCampus.
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About Nortek Data Center Cooling™
Nortek Data Center Cooling builds thoroughly tested and proven data center cooling systems that eliminate downtime, maximize potential and minimize environmental and physical footprints in both small and large-scale data centers. The company leverages its more than a million square feet of manufacturing space to create next-generation products that challenge industry standards. Nortek Data Center Cooling’s StatePoint®, ServerCool™ and FANWALL® technologies deliver sustainable, efficient results that keep companies up and running. To learn more about Nortek Data Center Cooling, visit nortekdatacenter.com.
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About RackBank
RackBank is a hyperscale datacenter platform. The company is building more than 500 MW of IT infrastructure for Cloud operators and global enterprises. Its ability to offer scalable, modular-build, carbon-neutral, carrier-neutral, network-dense, robust and reliable data centers makes RackBank well-positioned to monetize the Gigawatt opportunity and enable the digital infrastructure for Digital India. RackBank has strategically chosen Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad as preferred locations for building datacenters in India. Our target customers are global hyperscale Cloud operators of the Global Fortune 1000. Also RackBank is focusing on edge datacenters in the top 100 cities of India. www.rackbank.com.
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