How Google saves on refrigeration for their data centers

Research by Jonathan Kumy. On August 2011 the company operated approximately 900,000 servers.

Naturally, the Google engineers are constantly working to improve the infrastructure of data centers, in which one of the most problematic areas is the cooling system. Recently, the company began to replicate an elegant solution to the same extremely positive working on the image, benefiting society and the city location.

The essence of innovation - in the cooling. server hardware. not just water, and water, already fulfilled a useful cycle - after the industrial or sewage. The company drives the first liquid on the computer system to cool its electronic components, and then clearing it on their own, merges into the nearest body of water: for example,. Atlanta is in the American River Chattahoochee.

At Google believe that this is the most advanced and efficient way of cooling data centers, which saves resources, energy, and improve urban wastewater treatment plant presence and develop a positive brand reputation is deservedly.