Aerial view of a MicroLink data center campus on the edge of Columbus.
MicroLink Technology

A new type
of data center
is coming

Compute that heats the world around it.

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02 / Liquid CoolingThe opening

The industry is moving to liquid. That is the opening.

Racks are outgrowing what air can cool, and air dumps low grade heat near 35°C (95°F) that nobody wants. Liquid pulls heat straight off the silicon, and captures it at 45 to 70°C (113 to 158°F), warm enough for so many things.

MicroLink unit beside a boiler in a plant room

MicroLink and Vertiv designed our Edge pod infrastructure together, 800 V DC capable and ready.

Chip makes heat. Liquid cooling makes that heat recoverable and high grade. Here is the product family that delivers it.

Edge/Pod/Campus
03 / EdgeSmall heat loads

Edge

Small footprint. Placed where
the heat is needed.
HotelsLow cost housingSmall manufacturing

A hotel's hot water, an apartment block heating. Sitting quietly on a street or comfortably in a boiler room.

MicroLink edge cabinet beside apartments
04 / PodUp to 10 MW

Pod

Brewery process heat. Digester heating at a wastewater plant. A local public sector deployment. All receiving year round warmth.

Modular. Up to 10 MW. Medium heat for one partner.
BreweriesWastewater treatmentFarming & greenhousesPublic sector
a MicroLink pod lit from within at dusk, standing beside a wastewater treatment plant with digester tanks and a substation behind it.
05 / CampusAt scale

Campus

Mixed technology at scale. Power and heat recovery growing together.
District heatingHeavy industryAnchor compute

District heating networks and industrial demand that runs all year. The largest load we carry.

Elevation line drawing of a greenhouse, a plant building, and a data center hall.
Aerial of a MicroLink campus with greenhouses
MicroLink campus beside water
06 / ArchitectureThree loops

Three loops. One of them is always open.

Three loops carry heat from the chip to where it is needed. The third one always has somewhere to go,
so the compute never waits and the partner is never the bottleneck.

Cooler Idle
L1 SERVER LOOP L3 HOST DELIVERY EXCH A EXCH B SERVER RACK MICROLINK COOLER Cooler idle DIGESTER 38 °C (100 °F) 15.5 °C (60 °F) 65 °C (149 °F) 31 °C (88 °F) 18 °C (64 °F) 38 °C (100 °F) HOLD 37 °C (99 °F)
Loop 01

Off the silicon

Cold plates pull heat straight off the chip, at the density modern racks demand.

Loop 02

Across the site

The CDU moves that heat through to the facility heat exchangers, clean and contained.

Loop 03

To the partner

Heat goes to the partner who needs it. When demand drops, the dry cooler rejects it instead.

07 / The NumberERE

A good PUE means you waste less running the building. It says nothing about the heat.

a scaled section elevation through a MicroLink deployment showing greenhouse, brewery, digester and plant room with dimensions in millimetres.
Energy Reuse Effectiveness
< 1.0

ERE counts the energy we give back. Below 1.0, a site returns more usable energy than it loses. The number this company exists to move.

Power Usage Effectiveness
PUE

PUE measures overhead inside the fence. On its own it can read excellent while the heat goes to waste. We report both, together.