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LIQUID COOLING In the early days, liquid cooling was used in mainframe computers. Now, companies are developing several types of rack-level liquid-cooling solutions that bring chilled water or liquid refrigerant closer to the server itself. Rack-level liquid-cooling solutions include rack doors with sealed tubes filled with chilled water that cool the air leaving the server;… View Article

To know where data centers are going, it can be helpful to take a glance back at the past. Here’s a quick recap of where data centers have been and where they are likely to head in the years ahead: Data centers have been around, in one form or another, for over half a century. … View Article

Power and money have always been in inexorably entwined, and data centers are no exception to this fact.  Actually, as data center operators already know, power is money, at least when it comes to paying the bill for the energy required to power and cool servers and related equipment.  And, as servers become both denser… View Article