Google Cooling Entire Data Center With Seawater
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Any PC building enthusiast will know the merits of water-cooling. Now Google is taking it to the next level by water-cooling an entire data center.
In 2009 Google purchased a former building of a paper mill in Finland. Since then, the search giant has been hard at work designing a water cooling solution that would take the seawater into the data center and then channel it back out with minimal environment impact.
Check out the video that Google made on its new location:
Google Seawater cooling
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They will likely use a heat exchanger for a closed loop in the datacentre with a non conductive/corrorive fluid.
I hope you are joking.
They will likely use a heat exchanger for a closed loop in the datacentre with a non conductive/corrorive fluid.
I don't mean this as some sort of personal attack or anything, but seriously, anyone who goes out of their way to type like that... At least people who ignore the use of punctuation and such aren't putting effort into purposely... I could say a lot of different negative things, but I think I've gotten my point across.
I hope you are joking.
How long did it take you to type that? Trying to impress people with your caps lingo.
Yup. However, corrosion would still be an issue in the seawater piping. But, it's nothing a few engineers couldn't figure out.
Honestly this is pretty common. Any industrial plant near large bodies of water will often use that water for cooling. It's much more cost effective than using city water or ground water.
the tubing is coated with some kind of glass or poliamide material....therefore salt water shouldn't affect it
How does seawater cooling of remote servers would promote job growth?
the impact this will cause is far less then if they used traditional means of cooling... techonology got us into this problem and techonology can get us out
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