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.
