Alfa Laval joins Open Compute Project to accelerate sustainable data centers

Alfa Laval has joined the Open Compute Project to provide innovative heat transfer expertise to the community.

The Open Compute Project (OCP) is a collaborative community focused on redesigning hardware technology to efficiently support the growing demands on computing infrastructure. Alfa Laval is now one of about 250 companies, and over 1000 engineers from across the globe, to contribute with extensive expertise in the data center industry.

OCP was initiated by Facebook in 2011 to design and deliver the most efficient server, storage, and data center hardware designs for scalable computing. The overarching goal was to reduce the environmental impact of data centers. Since then, OCP has used open-source contributions for networking to innovate server, storage, and Open Rack solutions.

"We are delighted to become a platinum member of the OCP community. It is a great opportunity to share our heat transfer expertise with the world. We look forward to collaborating with OCP, and its members, to drive the development and adoption of energy efficient cooling and heat reuse, to accelerate sustainability and energy security in the growing data center industry,” says Anna Blomborg, Industry Manager Data centers, Alfa Laval.

"The Open Compute Project Foundation is very pleased to welcome Alfa Laval as a Platinum member and to its community, which is providing leadership in the transition from air-cooled to liquid-cooled data centers, including heat reuse. Data center sustainability has become an imperative and for that reason, the OCP has adopted sustainability as a 5th tenet, and requires all OCP Project work products to strive to be as ecologically safe as possible. We appreciate Alfa Laval’s efforts to date in shaping the innovations around heat reuse that are being developed within the OCP Cooling Environments Project and Community," says George Tchaparian, CEO at the Open Compute Project Foundation.

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