Re: Colocation in the US.

["Tony Varriale" <tvarriale () comcast net>]

How about CO2?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Lyon" <mike.lyon () gmail com>
To: "Brandon Galbraith" <brandon.galbraith () gmail com>
Cc: <deepak () ai net>; "Paul Vixie" <vixie () vix com>; <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: Colocation in the US.


> 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.