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Re: Colocation in the US.
From: "Mike Lyon" <mike.lyon () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:49:07 -0800
I think if someone finds a workable non-conductive cooling fluid that would probably be the best thing. I fear the first time someone is working near their power outlets and water starts squirting, flooding and electricuting everyone and everything. -Mike On 1/24/07, Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith () gmail com> wrote:
On 1/24/07, Deepak Jain <deepak () ai net> wrote: > > > Speaking as the operator of at least one datacenter that was originally > built to water cool mainframes... Water is not hard to deal with, but it > has its own discipline, especially when you are dealing with lots of it > (flow rates, algicide, etc). And there aren't lots of great manifolds to > allow customer (joe-end user) service-able connections (like how many > folks do you want screwing with DC power supplies/feeds without some > serious insurance).. > > Once some standardization comes to this, and valves are built to detect > leaks, etc... things will be good. > > DJ > In the long run, I think this is going to solve a lot of problems, as cooling the equipment with a water medium is more effective then trying to pull the heat off of everything with air. But standardization is going to take a bit.
Current thread:
- Colocation in the US. Robert Sherrard (Jan 22)
- Re: Colocation in the US. JC Dill (Jan 23)
- Re: Colocation in the US. david raistrick (Jan 23)
- Re: Colocation in the US. Paul Vixie (Jan 24)
- Re: Colocation in the US. Mike Lyon (Jan 24)
- Re: Colocation in the US. Tony Varriale (Jan 24)
- Re: Colocation in the US. Deepak Jain (Jan 24)
- Re: Colocation in the US. Brandon Galbraith (Jan 24)
- Re: Colocation in the US. Mike Lyon (Jan 24)
- Re: Colocation in the US. Brandon Galbraith (Jan 24)
- Re: Colocation in the US. Gary Buhrmaster (Jan 24)
- Re: Colocation in the US. Tony Varriale (Jan 24)
- Re: Colocation in the US. John Curran (Jan 25)
- Re: Colocation in the US. Warren Kumari (Jan 25)
- Re: Colocation in the US. Warren Kumari (Jan 25)
- Re: Colocation in the US. Marshall Eubanks (Jan 25)
- Re: Colocation in the US. david raistrick (Jan 23)
- Re: Colocation in the US. JC Dill (Jan 23)
- Re: Colocation in the US. Gary Buhrmaster (Jan 24)
- Re: Colocation in the US. Paul Vixie (Jan 24)
- Re: Colocation in the US. Alexander Harrowell (Jan 25)