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Putting the heat on data center cooling costs
Putting the heat on data center cooling costs
Note to data center operators: Some of the new, seductive technologies that promise to slash water and power use aren't all they're cracked up to be, warns Rick Cockrell of Core4 Systems.
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Iceotope Storms Out of Stealth With Super Efficient Cooling for Servers
Earth2Tech — Electronics and liquids don’t mix, unless you’re Iceotope. At this week’s Supercomputing 2009 conference in Portland, Ore., the 3-year-old startup from Sheffield, UK is demonstrating a liquid-cooled server setup that has the potential to cut data center cooling costs by up to 93 percent. The firm just came out of stealth mode, 18 months after a round of financing in early 2008 from EV Group. Plans call for Iceotope to begin manufacturing this year with an eye toward getting the system to early access participants by Q1 2010, general availability sometime in the second half of 2010. Considering that ...

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