Special Letter: Unexpected Flows and Interactions in the Data Center of the Future
Two Big Problems: Power and Water
A Critical Constraint: Heat Removal
The Closed-Loop Penalty
Troubles with Liquid Coolants
Free Cooling
The Shocking Cost of Server Fans
Better Metrics Will Drive Better Decisions
Flows and Interactions
The Critical Interactions of the Cooling System
The Surprising Future of Data Centers
About David Binger
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Publisher’s Note: If one were looking for a planetary dark side to the explosion of data centers and the related movement of corporate IT functions to the cloud, it would likely be the concomitant explosion in energy consumption, much of it ending up as waste heat.
Making even small-percentage dents in this problem provides huge financial – and ecological – leverage for customers, and for reducing global-warming issues.
Unfortunately, most of the technology addressing this issue seems vaguely like a rehash of automotive history, with air- and water-cooled systems at the forefront.
For that reason, I’m delighted to be able to share what appears to me to be a major step forward, using new science and new technology, to achieve markedly improved results on this front. Anyone owning or using data centers will want to read further, and then consider how to make use of this new invention. – mra.
