Comments on: 2-Phase Immersion Cooling Halted Over Multi-Billion Dollar Health Hazard Lawsuits

By: hills of steel

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 08:27:32 +0000

We collaborate with GRC in Europe, and this is a straightforward solution that has substantial sustainability advantages; as a result, it will be implemented in due course, although our industry is notoriously risk-averse. Currently, this approach has the support of Dell and Intel. Do you honestly think we blew air around servers to cool them once? We’ll ask ourselves that question again in 10 years.

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By: Jonathan Evans

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 07:54:25 +0000

The 2 phase solution was using a hammer to crack an egg, we work with GRC in Europe and this is a simple solution with huge sustainability benefits so it will be adopted in time but we are in a risk averse industry. Dell and Intel have come on board with this solution now. In ten years we will look back and say ‘did we really blow air around servers to cool them at one time?’

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By: Craig Dunwoody

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 01:49:02 +0000

@David appreciate your comment, and I’ll go further in not praising any working-fluid option at all. Every one has negatives that some others don’t.

Understood that there are substantial differences among options regarding amount and quality of available data on environmental and health effects throughout fluid production/deployment/recycling/disposal lifecycles.

I do believe that across years, commercial thermal-management offerings are making incremental progress toward better working-fluid options.

I also think that although details are highly implementation-specific, benefits of two-phase DLC relative to two-phase immersion could include potentially smaller total working-fluid volume; and potentially less human exposure to working fluid and vapor during routine system operation and maintenance.

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By: Eric

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 12:43:52 +0000

Doug, you could use deionized water for a short time. However the complete lack of ions in it means ions want to diffuse into it from the surrounding. In the case of PC components that would be copper, tin, etc. After a short time your DI water will have corroded most of the metals and stripped ions from them…at which point it’s no longer deionized water but rather water full of metal ions.

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By: abufrejoval

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 19:15:44 +0000

A huge thank you for this article!

The absense of news there has been bugging me for a while, but it seems a recurrent issue in IT reporting (although it could be far more general): certain failed hypes just don’t get explained for complete lack of press and good explanations are hard to come by on the open internet (while naive rumors abound).

The HP memristor and “the machine” were another one that was seriously hyped at the very highest level and then died a death so quiet, you’d never know what or who killed it.

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By: Peter Connell

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 08:47:16 +0000

Make decommissioned subs into data centers.

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