http://e-oasis.com/alerts/2005/lessons-learned-arent-always-lessons-remembered/ Alerts about Business and Technology Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:20:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://e-oasis.com/alerts/2005/lessons-learned-arent-always-lessons-remembered/comment-page-1/#comment-232 E-Oasis Alerts » Blog Archive » The Data Center Arm’s Race will resurrect Chilled Water Tue, 03 Oct 2006 08:47:48 +0000 http://www.e-oasis.com/alerts/2005/lessons-learned-arent-always-lessons-remembered/#comment-232 [...] Predictably, this lesson has already been learned but not remembered. As of this writing the laws of thermodynamics have not been superceded. This means that if you want to reduce the consumption of electricity in the data center, you need to more efficiently dissipate the heat. This means abandoning air-side cooling in favor of something that used to cool those large mainframes quite efficiently – chilled water. [...] [...] Predictably, this lesson has already been learned but not remembered. As of this writing the laws of thermodynamics have not been superceded. This means that if you want to reduce the consumption of electricity in the data center, you need to more efficiently dissipate the heat. This means abandoning air-side cooling in favor of something that used to cool those large mainframes quite efficiently – chilled water. [...]

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