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Re: Mailing list/group for datacenter facilities folks


From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 20:03:24 -0500

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Brandon Kim <brandon.kim () brandontek com> wrote:
I would love to be a part of this list if there is one!!!

Cooling is not as easy as just pumping cold air into a room.....

?
Indeed... it's even easier than that.   Cooling is as easy as making
an entire room emit heat
to the outside environment at an average rate that is consistently
faster than heat transfer
into the room from all sources.

There are many ways of accomplishing that.      One of the best ways
is to put your room
in an already cold environment,   in  contact with an excellent
thermal conductor.

For example...   server room  in the arctic region,    at  the bottom
of  some lake.
Probably with all air removed from the environment, and a sound
thermal medium such as oil
pumped in in its place (make sure to use SSDs for all storage and no
mechanical devices).

--
-JH


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