#Industry News
Structural Design for Liquid-Cooled Data Centers: From Load Values to Connection Details
A 2-to-5-Ton Immersion Tank on 20 kN/m², CDUs as Point Loads That Never Ride the Distributed Value, and L/600 Slabs: The New Rules Engineers Sign Off at Scheme Stage
Structural design for liquid-cooled data centers is not a load change from 10 to 16 kilonewtons per square meter but a new discipline: immersion tanks of 2 to 5 tons demand 20 kilonewtons or above, cold plate racks run 30 to 50 percent heavier at 16 or above, and every CDU forms a concentrated point load that never gets enveloped by the distributed value. Zoning must be explicit with a 30 percent load margin and 10-to-20-millimeter extra slab thickness, immersion slabs tighten to L/600 and crack control to 0.2 millimeters. Legacy air-cooled rooms show 50-to-100-percent shortfall against the 16-to-20-kilonewton requirement, fixed by bonded steel, enlarged beams or partial demolition under a three-tier waterproofing scheme. EXTRCOOL provides one-stop liquid cooling solutions.
