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Oil Soaked Servers Coming Soon

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yeah-good-luck-with-that dept.

grease_boy writes "A UK company will start selling server racks submerged in oil baths within a year. Very-PC is working on prototypes and says that because oil transfers heat more efficiently, power usage can be cut by fifty percent."

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  1. Misleading by quote-out-of-context by redelm · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Power consumption for cooling might well be reduced by 50%, but this is perhaps 2-5% of the total. How can overall power be reduced? The CPU consumes the same, wet or dry. PSU ditto.