Databin, a developer of immersion cooling technology, said on the 23rd that it signed an agreement with Korea South-East Power (KOEN) to develop seawater-based cooling technology for data centers.
The agreement calls for using seawater cooling facilities at Korea South-East Power's plants to develop an immersion cooling system suited to high-heat artificial intelligence data centers. Rather than relying on conventional air cooling, the system uses seawater as a cooling source to improve energy efficiency and operational stability.
Building on its in-house immersion cooling solution, Smart Box, Databin will work to upgrade domestically developed immersion cooling systems, develop heat exchange modules that link to power plant seawater cooling facilities, and build data center infrastructure management (DCIM) and digital twin software. The system at the center of the effort will use a separated dual-circuit design and a closed-loop heat exchange structure. Seawater will serve as a secondary cooling source and will be physically isolated from data center equipment to improve the stability and reliability of the cooling process.
"This partnership is a demonstration-stage business model for converting power plant infrastructure into AI data center infrastructure," Databin CEO Kim Soo-yong said. "We will build a standard model for data centers tied to power plants."