ECO‑GSC‑LDC is an R&D and industrial innovation project aiming to significantly reduce the energy consumption and environmental footprint of high‑performance and enterprise computing infrastructures. The project focuses on the development and validation of an optimized, full liquid‑cooling solution for standard 19‑inch Enterprise servers, which are traditionally air‑cooled.

By capturing heat directly at component level—particularly from CPUs and other high‑power elements—the project enables higher thermal efficiency, increased computing density and improved overall system reliability. This liquid‑first approach allows the use of latest‑generation free‑cooling and adiabatic technologies, operating at extended temperature ranges of approximately 20 °C to 40 °C at the rack inlet, well beyond the limits of conventional air‑cooled data centres.

The ultimate goal of the project is to achieve Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) values below 1.2, representing an average 20% reduction in the carbon footprint of a mid‑sized data centre. ECO‑GSC‑LDC directly contributes to national and European objectives for sustainable digital infrastructures and low‑carbon high‑performance computing.