LiquidStack Holding B.V., a startup providing liquid immersion cooling for data centers, today announced that it has received funding from Trane Technologies PLC to support the adoption of its solutions and significantly reduce data center carbon footprint, water consumption, electronic waste and environmental impact.

Trane is a manufacturing company focused on sustainable heating, ventilation and air conditioning. It’s one of the data center industry’s most prominent suppliers of mission-critical infrastructure.

LiquidStack will primarily use the new funding to expand manufacturing, including opening a state-of-the-art facility in the U.S. The new facility will include research and development labs, factory acceptance testing and a service training center to support the demand and adoption of the company’s immersion cooling technology in hyperscale, cloud, colocation and edge computing applications.

In addition to its new facility, LiquidStack will dedicate funds to invest more in research and development, especially in advanced dielectric fluids that reduce global warming and ozone depletion while replacing environmentally harmful refrigerants.

LiquidStack’s 2-phase immersion cooling drastically reduces data centers’ direct and indirect carbon footprint by over 1,500 tons per MW versus air cooling. Using the technology results in a 40% reduction in mechanical equipment energy use versus air cooling, 33% lower capital expenditure, 32% lower total cost of ownership and up to 69% compaction of data center white space, which translates to 32% less land use.

A broader adoption of LiquidStack’s technology is also said to reduce water usage for powering and cooling data centers by more than 300 billion liters annually. Its technology also differs from traditional data center tech, with heat captured by its technology able to be repurposed for hot water supply, district heating, or even high-tech agriculture applications, as opposed to being released into the environment.

“Trane is a leader in the field of high-efficiency heat rejection and repurposing solutions and is renowned for supporting technologies and companies that have a measurable positive impact on the environment,” LiquidStack Chief Executive Joe Capes said in a statement.

Although the amount invested by Trane was not disclosed, according to Crunchbase, LiquidStack had previously raised $10 million in venture capital funding.

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