Rosa Lawrence is Research Associate for Uptime Intelligence. She recently graduated from The University of Manchester with a master's degree in chemistry. Her interests include sustainable energy and reducing the environmental footprint of infrastructure. Previous research has covered dielectric fluids for electronic cooling systems and battery chemistry.

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Immersion fluids hold promise, but fire risk a concern

There are no commonly accepted best practices or standards to refer to when assessing the fire hazard that single-phase immersion fluids pose in a data center application and the appropriate measures against them.

Intelligence Updates 6 min read
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Anatomy of a thermal runaway

While the fire risk with lithium-ion batteries is widely understood, guidance on how best to mitigate it is still evolving. Controlling a Li-ion fire is difficult because of chemistry that creates the risk of thermal runaway.

Intelligence Updates 8 min read
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Next-gen refrigerants: another environmental plight?

Refrigeration’s history of progress is also a history of environmental concern. Whenever new refrigerants solve a problem, they create further crises down the line — and now history appears to be repeating itself.

Intelligence Updates 7 min read
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EU battery regulations: what do the new rules mean?

New EU legislation will raise recycling and reporting standards for batteries, regardless of chemistries. Although motivated by battery use in electric vehicles, the regulations also place obligations on data center operators.

Intelligence Updates 2 min read
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