IBM’s new way to cool a Datacenter with Aquasar

IBM developers have come up with a new way to cool a datacenter.  The system uses distilled water to cool the CPUs in the datacenter servers and then pass the heat on to another system for use in heating rooms in the building that the datacenter resides.  It has a major impact on the power consumption and carbon footprint of data centers, and the way companies heat their offices.  Water cooling for computer has been around for a while now, but this will definitely have a positive effect on electricity usage with the addition of reduced heating costs in the Winter months.

Prof. Dimos Poulikakos  said, “With Aquasar, we make an important contribution to the development of sustainable high performance computers and computer system. In the future it will be important to measure how efficiently a computer is per watt and per gram of equivalent CO2 production.”  This isn’t something that an average person will have a use for, but it is a good way to help lower the overall cost of running a large server farm.