The iMasons Innovation Committee has accepted Oleon’s App Lab into its Incubator Program. The App Lab is a technology hub for immersion cooling innovation, located at Avril’s ATV site in Compiègne, near Paris.
Why Oleon’s App Lab?
The App Lab showcases immersion cooling systems and facilitates testing of various servers and cooling systems using QLOE™ – Oleon’s patented, plant-based dielectric fluid. It currently hosts systems from Iceotope, Midas, and GRC, with plans to expand to include Submer, AirSys spray-cooled systems, and Vertiv.”
Driven by their ‘serve the earth’ mission, Oleon has contacted the iMasons incubator to enable collaboration on the use of their state of the art facilities with partners in line with the incubators core mission to ‘harness collective experience and resources to uncover, guide, and accelerate digital infrastructure innovation’.
As the world’s digital footprint expands exponentially due to high-density compute (HDC) and AI, so too does its environmental impact. The energy and water consumption of data centers hosting HDC is already significant and continues to grow.
Maarten Trautmann, Immersion Cooling Program Lead, notes that the IEA predicts data center electricity consumption will reach 3% by 2030, adding, ‘Water is often overlooked. It’s a scarce resource, and we see significant community protest due to high data center water and energy consumption. Immersion cooling offers a solution: enabling high-density computing while minimizing environmental burden.”
This approach aligns with iMasons’ mission to unite digital age builders and foster technical innovation, sustainability, and community engagement.”
Beau Van Vaerenbergh, Principal R&D Engineer at Oleon, stated:
“The App Lab perfectly aligns with our innovation strategy, empowering passionate research teams to collaborate across disciplines and organizations. It provides an ideal environment to test our cutting-edge QLOE technology, ensuring technical excellence across a broad range of single-phase immersion cooling systems.”
Romain Tranchant, Innovation Chair at iMasons, added:
“Oleon’s App Lab perfectly exemplifies how the incubator transforms innovation spaces into collaborative hubs. By connecting Oleon with key partners, we can facilitate activities from technical workshops to ESG-focused training, driving collective industry progress. This collaboration is central to the Innovation Incubator’s mission.”
iMasons welcomes App Lab, powered by Oleon, to the Innovation Incubator Program!
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Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) is a global, nonprofit, professional association of individuals connected and empowered to build a greater digital future for all. Since its launch in 2016, the organization has brought together 6,000 individuals representing US$250 billion in infrastructure projects across 130 countries. iMasons provides an agnostic platform for members to connect, grow, and give back.
To date, iMasons has contributed USD 1+ million in scholarships, launched Member Focus Groups and opened regional and local Chapters across four continents. In 2022, iMasons spearheaded the Climate Accord, uniting leaders on carbon reduction in digital infrastructure.
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