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Water cooled server cabinet system

Tuesday, 31 July, 2007
By Simon Leufstedt

Using a water cooling system for your personal computer has been around for a while. But it isn’t until recently that you can cool down your servers using water. Panduit Corp recently released a new Net-Access Server Cabinet System that features IBM’s Rear Door Heat Exchanger Water-Cooling Technology. It is basically a five-inch deep cooling door that uses chilled water to dissipate heat generated from the servers. This can easily reduce server heat output by up to 55%.

Gartner recently released a report that says that water can carry, unbelievable, 3500 times more hear than air at sea level. This can considerably improve the temperature of data centres with more cooling efficiency.

Simon Leufstedt is the editor of Green Blog. Simon has previously studied Global Environmental Justice and is currently studying Human Ecology and Political Science at Lund University in Sweden. Simon is also blogging over at the Swedish 350 website and working with the Swedish TckTckTck organisation. You can follow Simon on Twitter and on Google+.
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SandraMillhouse

That's new to me. I never thought we can use water to cool our servers. I really need to learn more about this system. Do you think it's worth the hassle? It's quite expensive but i think that money can be a good investment considering that we won't have any burned servers.
Sandra Millhouse | cheap virtual server
trexapb

Very cool! I am glad that some progress is being made in the computer world. I may have to write about this on my site! Thanks!

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