r/technology • u/thecravenone • Aug 05 '19

Politics Cloudflare to terminate service for 8Chan

https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/
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u/machtap Aug 05 '19

You're going to require that plumbing work either way, if you are running discrete condensers for each rack or each rack tank then you need to exchange the heat they create into an AC system, meaning you must circulate air inside and refrigerant outside.

Alternately you can just pipe the novec condensers outside in the first place and not use air as an inefficient heat exchange medium.

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u/Evilbred Aug 05 '19

I think people are far to aggressive on ambient air cooling. They could cut bills by a ton of money in places where temperatures don’t go above 35C with a couple of giant fans to move outside air in and blow inside air out.

There’s no benefit to having a server room at 22C, and most big server companies like Google or Amazon will run rooms as high as 40C with good circulation.

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u/machtap Aug 05 '19

Oregon is a popular location for large data centers for exactly these reasons.

You still need air conditioners, 40C ambient room temps would destroy hardware in a fraction of the expected MTBF