Are Liquid-Cooled Servers Coming to a Data Center Near You?

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In recent weeks, a server cooling concept that greatly reduces data center power consumption has been causing a bit of a stir. During the Supercomputing 2009 conference, two startups, Iceotope and Green Revolution Cooling, promised to drastically reduce the energy it takes to keep computing hardware cool by doing something a little unconventional. Their solution: dunking server hardware in liquid. he one thing these liquid-cooled systems have going for them is huge savings, plain and simple. But will it catch on?

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