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Cooler Servers or Cooler Rooms?
mstansberry writes "Analysts, experts and engineers rumble over which is more important in curbing server heat issues; cooler rooms or cooler servers. And who will be the first vendor to bring water back into the data center?"
What makes sense is what solution is cheap and reliable.
On one hand, it should take much less juice to cool just a few boxen directly rather than keep an entire room cold enough to keep all those CPU cores cool as well.
On the other hand, high-performance cooling systems inside every box means a lot more points of failure.
On the other hand, if everything in your server room requires a working HVAC to function, you're in trouble if the HVAC goes out - while if the cooling system in one server goes out, you can just swap it with a backup server while you're waiting for repairs.
I'm sure there's a whole lot more pro/con that I could parrot if I had bothered to RTFA. . .
Would that be kelvin, Celsius or Fahrenheit?