Cold Sea Water On Hot Computers
by brian lam
There used to be a paper mill in this old building in Hamina, Finland. Then Google took it over and installed a data center inside. Computers, thousands of them, get very hot. But instead of using expensive air conditioning to keep the computers from melting down, Google decided to use existing tunnels, of granite and connected to the nearby gulf, and the sea water inside to cool the entire data center’s machinery. The water is even stored and mixed with inlet water so that when it is returned to the sea it is closer in temperature to the ambient environment, as to avoid causing any heat-related environmental issues.
[...] more cold water so it wouldn’t affect wildlife. This is an inspiring design decision. [BI via Scuttlefish] Tagged:architecturecomputingdata [...]
[...] Computers get hot. Google data centers? They’ve got lots of them. Their new center in Hamina, Finland, was built in an old paper mill with a network of granite tunnels underneath them. Tunnels filled with cold sea water Google could pump into their center to rob the computers of heat before Google sent the water back from where it came from, mixed with more cold water so it wouldn’t affect wildlife. This is an inspiring design decision. [BI via Scuttlefish] [...]
[...] para não afetar os organismos que lá vivem. Este design é inspirador. [Business Insider via Scuttlefish] var $j = jQuery.noConflict(); $j(document).ready(function(){ var random = [...]
[...] [source1] [source2] [image] Actu geek, Actualité Geek, Datacenter, google, Google Datacenter, Google Datacenter eau de mer, Google Datacenter Hamina [...]
[...] source: thescuttlefish [...]