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HP's New Data Center Cooled By Glacial Wind

Posted by timothy on from the heating-up-the-whole-outdoors dept.

Arvisp writes with this snippet about HP's recently completed datacenter in northeast England, which utilizes the glacial wind blowing off the North Sea to lower temperatures of IT equipment and plant rooms: "The Wynyard takes in the cool air, filters it accordingly and collects it in the management system and is then forced over the front of the server racks before it is exhausted. The result is a hall with a constant temperature of 24C. When the winds become even colder than usual, the exhausted heat is mixed with the outside air to maintain temperatures."

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  1. North sea has melted by johnw · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bad news for the story writer - global warming is so far advanced that the North Sea is no longer glaciated.

    And the land bridge between England and France has been swept away by the melt water!

    1. Re:North sea has melted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think "glacial" in Native Aussie English means "too cold to fry an egg on the pavement".