Liquid Blade Brings Immersion Cooling To Blade Servers

1sockchuck writes "In the past year we've seen several new cooling systems that submerge rack-mount servers. Now liquid immersion cooling is coming to blade servers. Liquid-cooled PC specialist Hardcore Computer has entered the data center market with Liquid Blade, which features two Intel 5600 Xeon processors with an S5500HV server board in a chassis filled with dielectric fluid. Hardcore, which is marketing the product for render farms, says it eliminates the need for rack-level fans and room-level air conditioning. In recent months Iceotope and Green Revolution Cooling have each introduced liquid cooling for rack-mount servers."

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Re:Upholding Moore

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Do we really NEED liquid cooled servers in datacenters? Is this just our feeble attempt to validate Moore's Law despite diminishing returns on smaller process size and core multiplication...?

Yes. No.
The massive densities you can achieve with liquid-to-liquid cooling allows for much smaller data centers (or much more performance in existing data centers).

Just being able to build a smaller data center can mean you've recouped the liquid cooling investment, even before factoring in the savings for increased cooling efficiency/watt, no AC, and no cooling fans.