Immersion Cooling Drives Server Power Densities To Insane New Heights (datacenterfrontier.com)

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @05:10AM from the or-maybe-depths dept.

1sockchuck writes: By immersing IT equipment in liquid coolant, a new data center is reaching extreme power densities of 250 kW per enclosure. At 40 megawatts, the data center is also taking immersion cooling to an entirely new scale, building on a much smaller proof-of-concept from a Hong Kong skyscraper. The facility is being built by Bitcoin specialist BitFury and reflects how the harsh economics of industrial mining have prompted cryptocurrency firms to focus on data center design to cut costs and boost power. But this type of radical energy efficiency may soon be key to America's effort to build an exascale computer and the increasingly extreme data-crunching requirements for cloud and analytics.

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Really? by argStyopa · 2015-10-27 05:28 · Score: 5, Funny

"INSANE" new heights?
Has Slashdot been sold to the Gawker network now?

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1. Re:Really? by thegarbz · 2015-10-27 06:36 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  No don't understand. This is revolutionary. The article has such amazing facts such as:
  
  The Novec liquid inside a BitFury cooling enclosure actively boils as it changes phase, removing heat from bitcoin mining hardware.
  How have we not had stuff that ACTIVELY boils as it changes phase before! It's INSANE!