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Intel (and everyone else) do work on improving compute efficiency. But as the article points out, if 40% of your DC's power consumption is in cooling, then you
by icegreentea2 4y ago
Intel (and everyone else) do work on improving compute efficiency.
But as the article points out, if 40% of your DC's power consumption is in cooling, then you'd be foolish not to target that slice.
Liquid and immersion cooling allows higher power density, which all things being equal (I know there's a lot of heavy lifting being done by this...) will be preferred. Why distribute your components over a rack if you could fit it into a single 4U board? Why distribute your components over an aisle if you could fit it into a rack?
- lumost 4y agoThe other advantage of power density is that it creates stronger convection currents. Whereas data centers have traditionally been actively cooled, it’s not unreasonable to imagine open air dcs with air channels to support convection.
- walrus01 4y agoit's sort of been done, though there are still a lot of active fans to move the hot air. https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=chicken+coop+datacenter+ https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=chi...