LI Yuting, LI Zhiyang, ZHANG Runjie, et al. Comparison of energy consumption of air cooling and air-liquid hybrid cooling in data centers[J/OL]. Moren Journal, 2025.
LI Yuting, LI Zhiyang, ZHANG Runjie, et al. Comparison of energy consumption of air cooling and air-liquid hybrid cooling in data centers[J/OL]. Moren Journal, 2025.DOI:
With the development of data center cooling technology
air-liquid hybrid cooling with liquid cooling for high-power components and air cooling for other components
has become one of the main development directions The comparative study of component-level energy consumption between the air-liquid hybrid cooling method and the traditional cooling method is of great significance for further optimizing the cooling performance and tapping the energy-saving potential of the air-liquid hybrid cooling method. This paper establishes a data center energy utilization model
introduces in detail the key components of the server and cooling system and the one- and three-dimensional coupling modeling method
and discusses in depth the system energy consumption differences between server air cooling and hybrid cooling. Air cooling represents the traditional cooling method
and hybrid cooling is a new type of cooling method that combines air and liquid. Given the same server component size
chip power
and chip maximum temperature
the results of the two cooling methods are compared and analyzed to quantify the difference in energy consumption. The comparison results show that compared with traditional air cooling
hybrid cooling has very obvious energy-saving effects in the refrigeration compression link of the chiller and the power consumption of the server water pump. In addition
since there is no air-water heat exchanger in the liquid cooling system of hybrid cooling
it not only simplifies the system
but also further improves the heat transfer efficiency of the first cooling side and the secondary cooling side of the data center. The air-liquid hybrid cooling has obvious advantages in reducing energy consumption.
西安交通大学能源与动力工程学院,710049,西安School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
西安交通大学西安市数据中心节能及低碳技术重点实验室,710049,西安Xi'an Key Laboratory of Energy-Saving and Low-Carbon Technology of Data Centers, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
西安交通大学热流科学与工程教育部重点实验室,710049,西安MOE Key Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China