With AI, high-performance computing, and digital-asset workloads accelerating, the data center industry is shifting toward ultrahigh density compute in locations where traditional facilities cannot be built. In Chicago, DCX demonstrated this shift by delivering a 2 MW immersion cooled cryptocurrency deployment within the footprint of an existing city-center high-rise.
The client, located in the heart of Chicago’s urban core, required the installation inside a high-rise skyscraper, an environment with strict space, structural, noise, and heat-emission constraints. Unlike traditional data-center environments, this deployment had to coexist with commercial building infrastructure and city-center limitations.
DCX delivered a complete end-to-end immersion cooling solution, including fluid management, monitoring, and heat disposal systems. The system covers 153 m² inside a high-rise skyscraper. This compact powerhouse includes 120 DCX PRO9 immersion enclosures, hosting 600 servers and 4,800 GPUs densely packed across 40 racks. Each server is fully submerged in DCX ThermaSafe R dielectric fluid, which enables direct-contact heat transfer across all components. Immersion cooling prevents hot spots by evenly cooling all surfaces, even during peak workloads. Additionally, ThermaSafe R protects components from corrosion, dust, vibration, and thermal cycling. This leads to improved system reliability, lower failure rates, and less maintenance compared to traditional cooling methods.
A closed-loop heat-recovery system captures 100% of the thermal energy generated by the compute systems and redirects it to the building’s heating system. Instead of releasing waste heat into the atmosphere, it is repurposed as a valuable thermal resource, turning IT load into a predictable and useful energy stream. This intelligent reuse, along with silent, fanless operation and modular scalability, exemplifies what sustainable, future-ready data infrastructure looks like in an urban setting. This installation shows how next-generation cooling and heat-reuse technologies unlock new possibilities for dense, sustainable compute in metropolitan environments previously considered impractical for such workloads.
Systems which DCX delivers, enables small, medium size and large operations to operate better having more performance – hashrate. Professional operators can overclock the mining machine thus providing quicker ROI and better TCO for a mining operation. Immersion system developed by DCX protects expensive hardware from hot or humid climates or freezing temperatures which opens the ability to plan efficient cooling of cryptomining operation in different areas of the globe, including South America or Middle East.
One of the significant advantages of DCX Immersion Mining Systems is reuse the heat, which enables additional cost savings when purchasing heat rejection devices (dry coolers) and allows for sustainable and effective heat utilization for facility heating or different industrial applications.
Immersion cooling delivers efficient heat dissipation and enables full recovery of the heat produced. Give rest heat new life and reuse it to heat up your house, swimming pool, green house or an entire hotel. The possibilities are limitless.
Thanks to the built-in heat exchanger and pump, Bitpod captures heat generated by the miners and redirects it back to wherever you need it! Enjoy 40-50°C water to warm up your house, swimming pool or green house. You decide.
The dry cooler rejects any surplus heat that cannot be absorbed by the pool or building, ensuring system stability. Meanwhile, the BitPod maximizes efficiency by redirecting recovered heat to where it’s needed—turning IT-generated heat into a valuable energy resource.
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