Published on November 10, 2009

How to keep up with power densities - Liquid cooling - better accept it…Maybe

There is no denying that power densities in data centers are not coming down anytime soon. Some predict figures of 25kW per cabinet and more. Processors are faster, but are still energy hogs even though they are using less energy. The servers that house processors come equipped with dual cords for redundancy which takes up breaker space. Power is constantly in demand in a data center, but to keep this flowing requires cooling for the heat generated from the equipment that is soaking in all that power.

As power densities in a data center increase the threshold for air cooling becomes smaller. The solution which is many times over more efficient than air and has been shunned by data center managers since the days of water cooled mainframes and that is liquid cooling.

To read further, please visit the Data Center Journal website:
http://datacenterjournal.com/content/view/3332/43/