As Ed mentioned, water-cooled facilitied are not uncommon, especially the further north you go (Scandanavia). A few articles on the subject here:
http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/internal/#water-and-cooling http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/06/23/water-cooled-solutions-high-density-rack-cooling/ -- *Tema Hassan* *|* Senior Architect *|* *eu**Networks* 15 Worship Street *|* London EC2A 2DT *| *United Kingdom +44 7825 577278 mobile *| *tema-hassan skype On 23 October 2014 18:27, Rod Beck <[email protected]> wrote: > I came across a collocation company that uses water cooling to reduce > its reliance on air conditioning. Is this standard in the industry? Does > the approach work well? > > > Roderick Beck > Sales Director/Europe and the Americas > Hibernia Networks > > This e-mail and any attachments thereto is intended only for use by the > addressee(s) named herein and may be proprietary and/or legally privileged. > If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby > notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email, and > any attachments thereto, without the prior written permission of the sender > is strictly prohibited. If you receive this e-mail in error, please > immediately telephone or e-mail the sender and permanently delete the > original copy and any copy of this e-mail, and any printout thereof. All > documents, contracts or agreements referred or attached to this e-mail are > SUBJECT TO CONTRACT. The contents of an attachment to this e-mail may > contain software viruses that could damage your own computer system. While > Hibernia Networks has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this > risk, we cannot accept liability for any damage that you sustain as a > result of software viruses. You should carry out your own virus checks > before opening any attachment. >
