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REAL-WORLD APPLICATION

Optimize data center cooling with AI

Optimize data center white space cooling using AI to dynamically match cooling to real-time IT load. Improve energy efficiency, reduce hotspots, and support thermal SLA compliance while reducing operational effort and unlocking additional capacity.

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Challenge

Maintaining efficient data center cooling is increasingly complex. Fluctuating IT loads, uneven airflow, and rising rack densities make thermal SLA compliance difficult to achieve. Many facilities rely on static cooling strategies, leading to overcooling, energy waste, and persistent hotspots, while limited staff resources constrain optimization.

Solution

Enable AI-driven data center cooling optimization that dynamically aligns cooling with real-time IT load. A dense sensor network and an AI engine continuously model white space airflow and autonomously adjust cooling units, creating a self-learning system that continuously optimizes performance and reduces operational complexity.

Gain control of white space cooling dynamics

Understand and optimize your data center white space cooling with real-time thermal intelligence. AI continuously analyzes temperature data to create dynamic airflow models and thermal influence maps across the data hall. This enables precise control of cooling units, predictive insights, and continuous optimization of temperature distribution, independent of your existing infrastructure design.

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Thermal reliability

  • Automatic hotspot reduction + visual guidelines for ongoing improvement
  • Increase reliability through intelligent maintenance across all racks
  • Ensure thermal SLAs are met

Energy savings

  • 40% ongoing cooling energy savings averaged across 500+ installations
  • 5 to 10% PUE improvement
  • < 3 years simple payback
  • Reduced wear extends equipment lifespan

More IT capacity

  • New capacity for IT expansions
  • Increase white space utilization

Relief staff

  • Autonomous solution with little human intervention
  • Allow personnel to focus on other high-value responsibilities

How to get started

Whether you’re building a new data center or modernizing an existing one, Siemens combines AI-powered White Space Cooling Optimization with our building management system to deliver fast deployment and continuous performance improvement.

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Assess cooling performance

Analyze your current data center cooling, airflow behavior, and thermal risks with infrastructure experts to establish a clear baseline and identify optimization potential.

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Connect sensors and systems

Deploy wireless sensors and integrate cooling units into the Siemens ecosystem, including WSCO and Desigo CC, to capture real-time environmental and operational data.

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Train the AI

Allow the AI engine to learn airflow dynamics and cooling influences, then enable autonomous control to dynamically match cooling to real-time IT load.

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Optimize continuously

Leverage dashboards, insights, and analytics to monitor performance, ensure thermal SLA compliance, and continuously improve energy efficiency and cooling operations.

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Company: Compass Datacenters

Location: USA

Siemens solutions: White space cooling optimization (WSCO), integrated BMS-EPMS, power quality, low voltage power distribution

To build one of the greenest and most advanced data centers in the Baltics, Greenergy partnered with Siemens to implement AI-driven data center cooling optimization. Using White Space Cooling Optimization (WSCO), Greenergy could reduce overall facility power consumption by up to 40%, while supporting reliable, scalable, and sustainable operations.

Siemens provided not only the necessary hardware and software, but also the technical solution consulting throughout the project.

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