BuildingBetterDataCenters

MicroLink designs, builds, owns, and operates data centers that reuse heat to create value for infrastructure.

MicroLink Data Centers

Every chip in
a data center
is a kettle.

Energy spent on cooling:40%Of the power a conventional data center draws.
Heat thrown away:$70MEvery year, per 100 MW of compute, at what a host pays for heat.
A kettle and a computer chip side by side, each with a percentage bar beneath it.
One idea, one image, one number
The answerMicroLink Data Centers

Four Problems We Solve

01
$70M
Money Saved
02
$27M
Cooling Avoided
03
2 100+
Sites Unlocked
04
6M
Speed to Deployment
Dollar figures per year on a 100 MW siteNext: the pod that does it
Plant room with pumps and distribution pipework at dusk.
MicroLink
MicroLink pod
“MicroLink is doing something unique and special, and that does not happen all the time in the data center industry.”

Jumbi Edulbehram

Global Public Sector Director, NVIDIA Corporation

MicroLink energy and heat flow

What MicroLink does

01

Chooses and optimises energy input

Generation mix:4 sources
Stranded power:Used
Grid upgrades:10 cities

02

Increases rack density and shortens the power path

Distribution:800 V DC
Build method:Modular
Redundancy:N to 2N

03

Cools the silicon directly and closes the water loop

Cooling method:Direct to chip
Loop separation:3 loops
Water use:90% less

04

Hands the heat back to the city around it

Heat recovered:85%
Value to the host:$70M
Equivalent to:20 000 homes

The case

Three points that make the difference

01

Heat is a second revenue line

A conventional data centre throws its heat away. Next to a district heating network, that same heat has a buyer who is already paying for it in gas. On 100 MW of IT load, roughly $70M a year against the same capital.

It need not be taken as cash. The value can go back to the host as discounted heat, or be traded for a lower power price, or for grid capacity at a site otherwise years down an interconnection queue.

Cumulative heat revenue from 100 MW of IT load at PUE 1.12 and ERE 0.48, held flat with no escalator applied.

Cumulative heat revenue from 100 MW of IT load, 70 million dollars a year and 1.05 billion dollars over a fifteen year lease.

02

Full stack architecture

One module, one heat exchanger, one control system, assembled at whatever scale the host facility and the sink can carry. A cabinet in a plant room and a 750 MW campus are the same product counted differently.

Four MicroLink deployment scales side by side, edge at 0.25 MW, pod at 1.25 MW, block at 30 MW and campus at 750 MW.

03

Where the sites are

Eight sites across six states and three host types. What follows is what has actually been done at each one, not what is planned.

SiteCounter­partyAgree­mentSite identifiedScreenedTermsRouteMW
PhiladelphiaHost lease45
Ohio RiverPurchase+250
BethlehemHost lease30
TexasHost lease250
New York StatePublic programme20
Newtown CreekHost lease20
Ohio farmHost lease5
San JoseHost lease40
556318 sites660

Ohio River is shown as +250 MW, so the portfolio total is 660 MW and above.

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