Google Patent Reveals New Data Center Innovations

miller60 writes "'Google is seeking to patent a system that provides precision cooling inside racks of servers, automatically adjusting to temperature changes while reducing the energy required to run chillers.' The cooling design uses an adjustable piping system featuring 'air wands' that provide small amounts of cold air to components within a server tray. The cooling design, which could help Google reduce the power bill for its servers, reinforces Google's focus on data center innovation as a competitive advantage. Check out the patent application and a diagram of the system."

Comments

Soon

[MichaelSmith]

There have been 17000 youtube searches for Natalie Portman naked in the last 450 milliseconds. We need a burst of cold air on rack 1000001, processor 304 on the second chip on the third stick of RAM.

Re:Soon

[Interoperable]

Well...the Natalie Portman chip is hot...

At least we know the DB servers are cool

[pintpusher]

They can cross that off the list and carry on with other solutions to the

Error establishing a database connection

problem...

Re:At least we know the DB servers are cool

[miller60]

Yes, we were down. The previous database turned out to be a girly man database. We're back now with a (hopefully) manlier database.

Sweet.. sweet...

[ZeroExistenZ]

...irony.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com - Error establishing a database connection

Re:Does this pass the "Evil" smell test?

[Red Flayer]

I will now commit rutual seppuku to prevent the savage flaming i am no doubt abount to receive.

Death is no escape from a savage flaming on slashdot. It just means we will be crisping your corpse and be denied the joys of imagining the sounds of your lamentations and woe. On second thought, we could just *pretend* you didn't commit seppuku, and still have those joys. So really, your effort goes wasted -- please put the wakizashi down and resume whatever it was you were doing.

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