[94521] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Colocation in the US.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lyon)
Wed Jan 24 18:54:59 2007
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:49:07 -0800
From: "Mike Lyon" <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
To: "Brandon Galbraith" <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
Cc: deepak@ai.net, "Paul Vixie" <vixie@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <366100670701241545s37175551v6afd856f8cc18e71@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I think if someone finds a workable non-conductive cooling fluid that
would probably be the best thing. I fear the first time someone is
working near their power outlets and water starts squirting, flooding
and electricuting everyone and everything.
-Mike
On 1/24/07, Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/24/07, Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Speaking as the operator of at least one datacenter that was originally
> > built to water cool mainframes... Water is not hard to deal with, but it
> > has its own discipline, especially when you are dealing with lots of it
> > (flow rates, algicide, etc). And there aren't lots of great manifolds to
> > allow customer (joe-end user) service-able connections (like how many
> > folks do you want screwing with DC power supplies/feeds without some
> > serious insurance)..
> >
> > Once some standardization comes to this, and valves are built to detect
> > leaks, etc... things will be good.
> >
> > DJ
> >
>
>
> In the long run, I think this is going to solve a lot of problems, as
> cooling the equipment with a water medium is more effective then trying to
> pull the heat off of everything with air. But standardization is going to
> take a bit.
>
