Data Center Cooling
Discussions center on cooling methods for data centers, debating evaporative cooling's water usage versus alternatives like closed-loop systems, geothermal, immersion, or mist cooling.
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Why can’t the water for cooling these be a closed-loop system?
Why not used a closed loop system? Maybe something with geothermal cooling.
You really think they don't already use cooling towers ?
Perhaps they use evaporative cooling towers?
You could create a heatsink by freezing a mass of water then thawing it. The problem is space for large amounts of water and the high efficiency cooling and distribution system needed.
If energy wasn't a problem then they could just recirculate a coolant
Why wouldn't air/water be able to cool the air? It'd just output hot water instead of hot air
They aren't closed systems, they ultimately cool by evaporating water to reject heat.
The cooling sounds like a side-effect then. The goal isn't to cool for the sake of it. You want the energy out of it. If you just want a cooling system you could spray water onto it and let the steam escape. That'd be an effective cooling system. What people really mean is that they want to usefully extract the energy.
Maybe quite handy for water cooling?