The Advantages of Liquid Cooling

Data Center Knowledge (Jul 2 2010) Power and Cooling , Servers

1. Data centers are an ever-growing part of our economy. The IT community is experiencing constantly increasing demands in areas such as Internet media and video, banking and finance, research, and government, just to name a few. Consequently, data centers continue to grow in both size and numbers. In addition, the performance of IT servers continues to follow Moore’s law. This improves the performance per dollar spent on IT equipment, but also increases the heat density inside the data center equipment. Driven by these factors, the cost of running a data center continues to grow, even as the cost of the IT performance continues to decline. One of the most critical sustainability issues with many data centers today is cooling. Typically, air-cooled data center operators have managed heat density issues by spreading the load and under-populating racks. This is a result of the limitations of air cooling, which creates a ... (Read Full Article)

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