Google Patent Reveals New Data Center Innovations

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 30, 2009 @10:29AM from the easy-to-innovate-with-unlimited-resources dept.

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."

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Soon by MichaelSmith · 2009-11-30 10:47 · Score: 4, Funny

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.

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1. Re:Soon by Interoperable · 2009-11-30 11:38 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Well...the Natalie Portman chip is hot...
  
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  So if this is the future...where's my jet pack?
Re:At least we know the DB servers are cool by miller60 · 2009-11-30 11:50 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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