Legrand, North America recently announced the purchase of Electrorack Products Company, an American company specializing in cabinets, power and cooling solutions. The demand for cabinets and accessories in data centers, broadcast and broadband, industrial and military/aerospace/shipboard markets is expected to expand by 10% a year in the United States over the next few years, … [Read more...]
Computers that Recycle Energy among Top IT Innovations
Computers that can recycle energy are among the scenarios IBM Corp. predicts over the next five years as part of its annual “Next Five in Five” year-end innovations report based on technologies being developed in IBM labs and around the world. On-chip water-cooling systems could be used to utilize thermal energy from a cluster of computer processors to provide hot water for an … [Read more...]
Federal Government Data Center Consolidation Under Way
Now that the first two phases of the federal government’s long-term data center consolidation effort have been completed, the plan to reduce the number of federal data centers by 40% by 2015 has been put into effect. In June, President Obama issued a memo instructing agencies to adopt a zero-growth strategy for data center space over the near term, to be followed by a reduction … [Read more...]
ElectronicsCooling Winter 2010 Issue
Don’t miss out on the Winter 2010 issue of ElectronicsCooling, which includes a sneak peek at SEMI-THERM 27, feature articles on open bath immersion cooling, and energy consumption of data centers, as well as technical briefs. If you would like to receive your free copy of ElectronicsCooling click here to subscribe. Read the Winter 2010 issue here. … [Read more...]
Open Bath Immersion Cooling In Data Centers: A New Twist On An Old Idea
Phil Tuma 3M Company, St. Paul, Minnesota The inefficiencies of legacy datacenter air cooling schemes are by now well known. New “Free Air” cooling technologies in which air is introduced to the racks in a facility or container and confined in hot and cold plena probably represent the pinnacle of air cooling efficiency, at least where climate permits them. However, development … [Read more...]
