Presented by Jabari George (J.M. Gross Engineering) | Ryan Orr (Uptime Institute)

Liquid cooling solutions are becoming more popular in data centers for mission critical applications, but they pose different challenges and opportunities for achieving concurrent maintainability than air-cooled deployments. Concurrent maintainability is the ability to isolate and repair or replace any component without affecting the critical load. This presentation will summarize the findings of a whitepaper co-authored by OCP and The Uptime Institute, which explores what factors need to be considered in the design and deployment of concurrently maintainable liquid-cooled solutions, and discusses the boundaries between the facility and the ITE for different liquid cooling topologies. The goal of the presentation is to advance the understanding of concurrent maintainability in liquid cooled deployments and to identify potential areas for improvement or update.