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  • Friday, December 4, 2009

Liquid-cooling is getting some attention from data center types, but the technology has a few stumbling blocks to clear before it will find success in the marketplace.

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. Not just any liquid, of course, but inert fluids that won’t short out the electronics. Like [...]

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