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[email protected] (John Curran) writes: > While the chilled water door will provide higher equipment > density per rack, it relies on water piping back to a "Cooling > Distribution Unit" (CDU) which is in the corner sitting by your > CRAC/CRAH units. it just has to sit near the chilled water that moves the heat to the roof. that usually means CRAC-adjacency but other arrangements are possible. > I know that it would have to be quite a bit before > many folks would: 1) introduce another cooling system > (with all the necessary redundancy), and 2) put pressurized > water in the immediate vicinity of any computer equipment. the pressure differential between the pipe and atmospheric isn't that much. nowhere near steam or hydraulic pressures. if it gave me ~1500w/SF in a dense urban neighborhood i'd want to learn more. -- Paul Vixie
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