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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Re:Voice from that hot and wet hole. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-27 05:43 · Score: 0, Redundant

The inherent value of fiat currency is exactly zero, it is just mental masturbation for those who can get no girl. They might as well waste all that paper and polymer by dumping it directly into dumps, it's that wasteful an effort. Silver, gold and gemstones have been around for 7000+ years and as long as ladyfolk exist, those tangible goods will have inherent value, because to get laid you have to give them shiny things to wear. Sex vs fiat currency, choose!