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95% Data-Center Cooling Energy Reduction Thanks to Fluid-Submerged Servers

Posted April 18, 2011 3:02 PM

From TreeHugger:

All kinds of industrial machines and processes are liquid-cooled, but strangely, most servers in large data-centers are still air-cooled. This doesn't make a lot of sense now that cooling costs are often as high, if not higher, than equipment costs. One of the companies working on changing that is Green Revolution Cooling. They use a non-conductive white mineral oil that holds 1,200 times more heat by volume than air to submerge servers, leading to a 95% reduction in energy used for cooling and 50% reduction in total energy use.

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04/19/2011 8:31 AM

I have an aqaintance that did this using CorrosionX. The heat exchange is to his backyard pool via a small motorcycle radiator. It uses a sealess magnetic drive pump he had from a poroject (fail). His game machine/autocad set up was a computer on a piece of plywood until he submerged it. No heat measurement has execeded +2deg F ambient compared to his pool. Mineral oil sounds cheaper. The heat still needs an ultimate dump point wether it be liquid or air. The liquid works better. He dipped the hard drives in Glyptal #10 red to be sure of the seal.

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04/19/2011 11:24 AM

Hmmm, not sure I want to test my SCUBA skills in mineral oil when it comes time for hardware maintenance/repair.

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