One of the world’s largest oil firms has just launched a unique coolant for data centers and chips with artificial intelligence

The blend of propylene glycol is designed for safety and cooling efficiency. Shell, the world’s largest oil company, has launched a direct liquid cooling fluid to meet the thermal demands of AI. Shell DLC Fluid S3 (also known as Propylene Glycol) is a solution based on propylene glycol that is designed to cool high density server hardware by targeting heat-generating components like CPUs and GPUs. It is compatible with a wide range of server architectures as it meets the Open Compute Project PG25 standard.

Powering the future digital infrastructure

According to Shell, its new fluid could improve Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) up to 27% when compared to air-cooling, potentially reducing energy-intensive air-conditioning. The company also highlights that the fluid has a longer service life, corrosion resistance across a wide range of metals and fluorescent dye to make leak detection easier. Shell DLC Fluid S3 offers direct-to chip and full immersion cooling options. “We’re not only keeping data centers cool, we’re also powering the future digital infrastructure,” said Aysun Akik VP New Business Development & Global Key Accounts at Shell Lubricants.

Our growing range of advanced fluid cooling solutions are designed to meet the needs of modern data centres today and tomorrow. They are backed by Shell’s global footprint and supply chain, as well as five technology development centers around the world.

In a previous article, we discussed how Castrol, one of the biggest names in motor lubricants has entered this market and is developing dielectric liquids for immersion cooling system.

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