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Re: Colocation in the US.

  • From: Mike Lyon
  • Date: Wed Jan 24 18:59:30 2007
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I think if someone finds a workable non-conductive cooling fluid that
would probably be the best thing. I fear the first time someone is
working near their power outlets and water starts squirting, flooding
and electricuting everyone and everything.

-Mike


On 1/24/07, Brandon Galbraith <[email protected]> wrote: 
On 1/24/07, Deepak Jain <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Speaking as the operator of at least one datacenter that was originally
> built to water cool mainframes... Water is not hard to deal with, but it
> has its own discipline, especially when you are dealing with lots of it
> (flow rates, algicide, etc). And there aren't lots of great manifolds to
> allow customer (joe-end user) service-able connections (like how many
> folks do you want screwing with DC power supplies/feeds without some
> serious insurance)..
>
> Once some standardization comes to this, and valves are built to detect
> leaks, etc... things will be good.
>
> DJ
>


In the long run, I think this is going to solve a lot of problems, as
cooling the equipment with a water medium is more effective then trying to
pull the heat off of everything with air. But standardization is going to
take a bit.