Hull University datacentre water cooling

[mikeprice]

Hi all

Saw a news article on the telly last night that seems interesting

Apparently Hull University have developed a new type of datacentre cooling system using water rather than air conditioning

 

https://www.hull.ac.uk/work-with-us/more/media-centre/news/2021/university-of-hull-low-carbon-tech-helps-council-cut-co2-emissions

 

 

not sure it will be necessary for the average Primary school - but a scaled down version might come along to help with maybe a large MAT

 

Clearly we don't want to shout too loudly - especially those of us (well you lot who still work anyway) who work in the only cool room in the school during hot summer days!!

[southhamster]

Hmm. Looks like Hull will be under the sea before too long so instant water cooling!

 

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jan/03/hull-flood-plain-sea-level-yorkshire?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

[Norphy]

Microsoft were trialling underwater datacentre pods for Azure a couple of years back:

 

https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/project-natick-underwater-datacenter/

 

I suspect that as cloud computing becomes more prevalent in schools, the need for data centres and in turn, data centre cooling is going to be much reduced in schools and maybe some universities too. It's interesting, for sure, but I don't think this is something that will be that common.

[FN-GM]

I did a tour of Zen Internet a few years back and they have water cooling installed already.

[dmj]

Water cooled rack mounts have been around for decades and are used in pretty much any datacenter.

What makes this innovative is that it's using due point evaporative cooling, not water cooling per se.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler

[mikeprice]

Many many years ago I was working in a big business - hence they had several main frame computer rooms

 

two of which had their own seperate building

 

The mini computers I worked on were in one of them

 

I was working there one day and suddenly the power just shut off

 

I clearly had to stop work - pretending was no longer an option with only the emergency lights on - so I started heading back to the office

 

on the way out I was in the lift with the main frame operators

 

turns out site services found that the flat roof was covered with leaves and other junk so they decided to hose the leaves (etc) off the roof

 

it all went well until they got to the edge and for some reason ($deity knows why) they were trying to clear our a vent

 

at which point the main frame operators noticed a jet of water spraying down directly onto the main frame itself

 

 

so they panicked and hit the BIG RED BUTTON

 

one guy said he was jealous 'cos he had always wanted to do that himself but he was just too slow

 

so the whole building shut down

 

anyway - it was on topic as it was water cooling

 

sort of

[seustice]

Many many years ago I was working in a big business - hence they had several main frame computer rooms

 

two of which had their own seperate building

 

The mini computers I worked on were in one of them

 

I was working there one day and suddenly the power just shut off

 

I clearly had to stop work - pretending was no longer an option with only the emergency lights on - so I started heading back to the office

 

on the way out I was in the lift with the main frame operators

 

turns out site services found that the flat roof was covered with leaves and other junk so they decided to hose the leaves (etc) off the roof

 

it all went well until they got to the edge and for some reason ($deity knows why) they were trying to clear our a vent

 

at which point the main frame operators noticed a jet of water spraying down directly onto the main frame itself

 

 

so they panicked and hit the BIG RED BUTTON

 

one guy said he was jealous 'cos he had always wanted to do that himself but he was just too slow

 

so the whole building shut down

 

anyway - it was on topic as it was water cooling

 

sort of

 

This came to mind!