Are you talking about evaporative cooling? Because this new system still very much uses water, in a closed loop.
And I’m aware water is cheap, it falls out of the sky.
Why do people keep acting like a company wanting to save money is a revelation? It’s so blindingly obvious, there’s no need to tell everyone all the time?
Surely you must realise heat transfer efficiency and cost are closely linked, right? You haven’t told us anything we don’t already know. Of course this is about saving money, that’s already obvious.
Do you genuinely think I didn’t know businesses want to save money? Why are you telling me this?
I’m not sure what argument or point you’re trying to make here. Why do you think they’re using water, exactly? And surely you must realise how efficiency and cost are linked?
Existing systems rely on air to pass heat to a radiator, which then relays heat to the ambient air outside. In order to keep temperatures inside the data centre at sane levels, the cooling water needs to be below ambient temperature, which can be done with either chillers or evaporative cooling. Running a chiller takes a lot of electricity to say the least.
By exchanging heat between the chip and the cooling water directly, it seems they’re claiming they can just have a heat exchanger with no chiller or evaporative cooling required. Which is probably true, it’s why over clocked gaming PCs are often water cooled.
Did you miss the part about millions of dollars in energy savings per year?
They kinda do, they say that, because the coolant is so efficient at transferring energy, a data center will not need evaporative cooling.
It would be very interesting to know what the upper limit of air temperature would be.
It sounds like genuinely cool technology in multiple ways. A water block on every single major component, and no cooling fans at all.
That would also be a very quiet room, rather than having thousands of tiny little fans screaming all the time.
Leave it at the office then.
I think the rooster clause will be brought up if one of your neighbours makes a noise complaint.
Like many rules, you’ll be fine unless someone takes offence.
Oh god please be the start of the bubble going pop.
I’m so fucking sick of hearing about AI all the time.
I’d say less than half, although mine does being an all in one unit. An increasing number of monitors have a webcam now though.
That is very much the definition of snowflake behaviour.
To be fair, it’s pretty rare. Even a lot of desktops have it.
The Thing is more an existential horror movie rather than a gore or jumpscare based movie.
Still not something I’d show to a child, but there’s definitely worse out there.
They actually lose money as well, because they’re proving those tokens at below cost price.
It’s a running joke that the British refuse to season their food, this isn’t just an American thing.
White people can’t cook is the joke.
Honestly, seeing what some people call seasoning, they have a point.
Their argument was that companies don’t care about efficiency, they just want to save money. Without realising they’re the same thing. As far as I can tell, they were arguing with themselves.