QINGDAO -- An industrial base for the construction of facilities for liquid-cooled data centers was officially put into operation in Qingdao City in east China's Shandong Province on October 27.

Liquid cooling is much more effective than air cooling for high-speed computing and other activities.
The Sugon (Qingdao) Industrial Innovation Base will support innovation, development and production of the facilities for liquid-cooled data centers.
Sugon is a leading Chinese enterprise in the field of servers, storage, cloud computing and big data.
"A data center using liquid cooling technologies can save energy by over 30 percent, which is a significant number. Liquid cooling can realize component-level accuracy and is far more efficient than air cooling in terms of heat dissipation, thus it can provide more stable and a better working environment for IT equipment," said He Jisheng, head of the green computing working group of the Advanced Computing Industry Alliance at the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.
The Sugon innovation base boasts seven major laboratories for research and development and four advanced production lines.
Its 650KW comprehensive enthalpy difference laboratory can measure the refrigerating and heating capacity of equipment with a high level of precision, automation, speed and stability.
The megawatt-level liquid cooling infrastructure laboratory, which is the only one of its kind domestically, can realize intelligent control through the self-developed control system developed by Sugon.
"The Sugon innovation base can develop and manufacture liquid cooling kits for servers, liquid cooling equipment for a computer room, professional liquid cooling pipelines as well as liquid cooling devices in an outdoor unit. These are all crucial parts of a data center. I believe the innovation base can promote the development of the whole liquid cooling industry for China's data centers," said He.