Combining heat and compute
Every Watt of data center power should be used twice
Long Reads - Cooling, Peter Judge, DCD
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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Microfluidics: Cooling inside the chip
If you think immersion tanks are the end game for liquid cooling, think again. We hear from engineers who want coolant to flow inside your chips
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Keeping your cooling water clean
Cooling systems are trying to use less water. Electrolytic descaling could be the answer
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Air cooling will never go away
We need liquid cooling, but it won’t replace air
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AI moves to Norway
There won’t be room for AI in the existing data center metro hubs. So AQ Compute is standing by to plumb it into a hydro-powered facility in Norway
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Germany: The first regulated data center market
The largest economy in Europe is the first to experience serious legislation relating to data centers
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Over-cooling is past its sell-by date
Fourteen years after apparent proof that warmer is better, colocation companies are still struggling to turn their cooling systems down
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Plant-based immersion cooling
Dealing with the hidden problems of dielectrics
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Data centers cooled by snow
It’s said that snow gives you two options: shovel or make snow angels. Now you have a third choice: cool your data center
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Heat reuse: It’s time it meant business
If you give your heat away for free, no one wants it. Put a price on it, and customers will form a line
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Building underwater
Projects in the US and China have shown that data centers underwater could be more efficient than those on land. But how do you build them?
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Liquid cooling: A new phase
Two-phase liquid cooling has finally arrived. Vendors are making purpose-built liquid cooled servers
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Cool vibrations: Harnessing thermal energy
A new cooling technology debuted at COP26 - one which uses thermal energy to create vibrations that cool systems better
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Cooling with water
Is it possible to run a conventional cooling system - but use water instead of harmful refrigerant gases? We found a firm that thinks so
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Crustacean cultivation: Lobsters and data centers
A land-based farm has finally produced plate-sized lobsters- thanks to a data center
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Project Natick: Microsoft's underwater voyage of discovery
DCD exclusive: Microsoft’s underwater data center experiment employed wave energy and post-quantum cryptography on the seabed off Scotland. But the big lessons could be learnt on land
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Simplifying rack power distribution
Data centers include a massive amount of electrical devices, powered by buses and cables. Let’s look at moves to simplify that
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Data center hardware is changing
You might expect the physical design of data center hardware to be pretty standard by now. Don’t be so sure…
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Smartening up: How AI and machine learning can help data centers
Controlling failure rates and temperatures with AI
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We're gonna need a bigger brain
Machine learning will increase the demands on data center performance, leading to new ways to cool and power the systems there
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Upgrading the birthplace of the commercial Internet
Twenty years ago, the public Internet took off in AOL’s Dulles Technology Center. Now the building is coming back into play, ready for the 21st century
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The great refrigerant shortage
European regulations are phasing out certain refrigerants, with major effects on data center cooling
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Europe gets Energy Smart
Thanks to its demographics, its energy grids, and its politics, Europe is getting ahead on energy efficiency
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Feeling the heat
Upgrading a data center to get a lower PUE is a challenge, but in the sub-tropical South African climate, it is a serious achievement
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Vertiv makes a pitch for the Edge
European Innovation Summit opens with a bid to stake out emerging territory
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Telehouse shows multi-floor cooling in London North Two
The external design is based on a broken phone, the internals contain a vertiginous chasm
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The age of the Zettastructure
The zettastructure is evolving to handle the Internet of Things. It will change every part of our technology infrastructure
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Energy crisis averted?
New research reveals that data centers are not the energy hogs we feared