[133054] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Want to move to all 208V for server racks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Fri Dec 3 16:21:15 2010
In-Reply-To: <FF5E2BD4C989EB41B60A6DC6CA8D29522EC1E734E1@EXCHMBX.hq.nac.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 13:21:07 -0800
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net> wrote:
...
> Anyway, back to topic: Vendors, please a) get all your gear to cool front-to-back, and b) let it take 480 polyphase and not require a neutral. I, for one, will be happier. The datacenter of tomorrow (hell, today) require this.
>
People are still feeding their gear with AC? Save on PS inefficiency,
and feed direct 12/5vDC to the servers. Save space, save power,
save cooling.
Matt
*quietly exits, singing "every watt is sacred, every watt is great..."
under his breath*
