After a one-year trial period, Intel has approved the idea of cooling servers by dunking them in mineral oil. Created by Green Revolution Cooling (GRC), the liquid cooling system, known as CarnotJet, removes heat from server electronics more efficiently than traditional air-cooling methods by submerging the servers horizontally into the bath of GRC’s GreenDEF mineral oil. Heat from the servers is absorbed by the oil and the oil is pumped away, cooled and returned to the bath.
As power and cooling costs become increasingly pressing issues for businesses, data center infrastructure vendors and hardware makers alike are continuously searching for new ways to increase efficiency without increasing cost. CarnotJet has the potential to reduce the amount of energy needed to cool a data center by as much as 95 percent, significantly reducing the power and cooling cost of the data center.
Intel remains in the evaluation phase and has not officially committed to adopting GRC technology in its’ data centers yet.
