The failure of a data center liquid cooling system can result in a rapid
temperature rise in electronic components that may either damage a
component, result in the loss of data housed within the component, or
both. A supplemental liquid cooling system is placed within each rack
serviced by a data center cooling system to mitigate such a failure.
Coolant flow is monitored to determine whether the data center liquid
cooling system has, for a particular rack, failed. Upon determination of
failure, the supplemental liquid cooling system is initiated to reduce
the thermal rise of the electronic components within the rack allowing
them to conduct an organized and complete shutdown.