Liquid Cooling Bags For Data Centers Could Trim Cost and Carbon By 90 Percent
Server farms are undeniably awesome in that they store huge pools of data, enable such modern phenomena as cloud computing and Web-hosted email, and most importantly, make the Internet as it stands today possible. The downside: data centers get very, very hot. Cooling huge banks of servers doesn't just cost a lot, it eats up a lot of energy, and that generally means fossil fuels. UK-based Iceotope hopes to cut those costs by about 93 percent by wrapping servers in liquid coolant. The Iceotope Liquid-Cooled Server: Bags of liquid coolant are placed inside the server banks at the component level, pulling heat away from the guts of the data center without the use of costly air chillers. Iceotope Iceotope works by wrapping individual components inside each server in a kind of ice-pack filled with synthetic coolant. The system also employs water to carry excess heat out of the data center, either releasing...