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kevinrineeryesterday at 7:29 PM3 repliesview on HN

I'm a bit surprised that this kind of incredibly engineered hyperconverged rack system isn't doing some form of liquid cooling.


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eep_socialyesterday at 10:18 PM

Interop standards for this like Open19 are not widely deployed and without interoperability it’s a dead end since you need the hosting provider to give you the drop to your rack or cage. Hyperscalers I don’t know, but I’d guess they don’t deploy rack density that calls for liquid cooling yet.

schainksyesterday at 7:46 PM

Not worth the capex to do that. Air cooling with evaporators up front is pretty standard and works great, not to mention fewer moving parts.

wmfyesterday at 7:40 PM

99% of data centers do not have liquid available to the rack. Liquid within the rack doesn't really help.