Evaporative cooling Air is funneled across web pads or filters; excess heat dissipates in the water; cooler air goes back into the data center.
Rear-door water cooling units Water runs through tubes attached to the rear door of a server rack, removing heat.
Waterborne data center Data center is built on a barge and is cooled from recirculated water from an ocean or other body of water.
EXAMPLE IBM and energy management specialist Schneider Electric are experimenting with self-contained rear-door water cooling units.
| EXAMPLE | management specialist | Nautilus Data Technologies |
|---|---|---|
| DigiPlex and Green House | Schneider Electric are | is working on water-cooled |
| Data are among the companies dealing with data center heat via evaporative cooling. | experimenting with self-contained rear-door water cooling units. | data centers built on vessels, as well as land-based centers constructed near bodies of water. |
Servers are submerged in nonconductive liquids, using simple chilling or two-phase cooling methods.
EXAMPLE 3M Novec Engineered Fluids; emerging nanofluids.
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