Cooling Bags Could Cut Server Cooling Costs By 93%

judgecorp writes "UK company Iceotope has launched liquid-cooling technology which it says surpasses what can be done with water or air-cooling and can cut data centre cooling costs by up to 93 percent. Announced at Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, Oregon, the 'modular Liquid-Immersion Cooled Server' technology wraps each server in a cool-bag-like device, which cools components inside a server, rather than cooling the whole data centre, or even a traditional 'hot aisle.' Earlier this year, IBM predicted that in ten years all data centre servers might be water-cooled." Adds reader 1sockchuck, "The Hot Aisle has additional photos and diagrams of the new system."

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[ByOhTek]

What, they won't? Oh man, this virtualization thing is brilliant.

So you virtualize a box, so that, if there's a hardware failure, the box can be brought back up on another machine, with minimal downtime! Also, you can run multiple systems on a box saving money!

We virtualized all our servers around here, went from about 200 servers to 8 machines, each with 16 CPU cores. It went well. So we decided to repeat the process. We then had 4 machines, each taking two VM hosts! It was great, more savings, more vodka for my drawer... So I thought, how could I make this even better...?

That's right, I put all four of THOSE VM hosts on a 486 in the back room that doesn't even need special cooling. Let me tell you, in terms of Vodka, this virtualization thing has been *quite* productive.

How could it not be all pervasive by 2019? I'm sure everyone will be virtualizing all of their VM hosts on VM hosts running on 486s by 2019!