I guess they will be completely blown away when they find out, that one can actually link data centers to distributed heating networks and thereby actually use the primary output of those premium priced electrical heating plants, instead of just wasting it and lots of water while doing so. Of course, for doing so one would have to properly plan those data centers and need more time developing them etc. And then it would take longer than this bubble might last so that is not an option.
I read a story of one datacenter years ago where their waste heat was heating the industrial complex around them. It was a nice change to see. Regulations around it would really help. Oh you want to do this? You need to reuse 80% of your waste heat to get approval, and have x% of power be renewable.
They’re using water cooling directly on each component, swapping heat sinks for water blocks. It’s not a new idea, water cooled PCs have been doing it for a very long time, but never done at data centre scales as far as I know.
Given how long water cooling has been around, I’m certain that technology is nothing new. I remember Linus Tech Tips trying to do something similar, where they water cooled all the video editing PCs on one big system.
Doing it on the scale of a data center will be something new though.
Wow, they invented closed loop cooling.
I guess they will be completely blown away when they find out, that one can actually link data centers to distributed heating networks and thereby actually use the primary output of those premium priced electrical heating plants, instead of just wasting it and lots of water while doing so. Of course, for doing so one would have to properly plan those data centers and need more time developing them etc. And then it would take longer than this bubble might last so that is not an option.
I read a story of one datacenter years ago where their waste heat was heating the industrial complex around them. It was a nice change to see. Regulations around it would really help. Oh you want to do this? You need to reuse 80% of your waste heat to get approval, and have x% of power be renewable.
We know how do it, people just dont.
Industrial ecology. Like you said, it’s not new, just takes some effort.
They’re using water cooling directly on each component, swapping heat sinks for water blocks. It’s not a new idea, water cooled PCs have been doing it for a very long time, but never done at data centre scales as far as I know.
The world’s fastest computers have been using them for a very long time. Though not data center sized, they are usually 100+ racks.
I thought that water cooled server gpus have been around for a while now, maybe I am mistaken.
Given how long water cooling has been around, I’m certain that technology is nothing new. I remember Linus Tech Tips trying to do something similar, where they water cooled all the video editing PCs on one big system.
Doing it on the scale of a data center will be something new though.