Beyond ServerDome: The bizarre-looking data center that saves water and energy
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ServerDome is a sustainable alternative to traditional data centers that uses less water and energy to keep its servers cool.
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Is this the most unique data center you’ve seen?
This guy doesn’t know how youtube works. 6:16 “If you think so give us a thumbs up in the comments”
Good luck using one in Arizona.
JohnnySwim poster!
Not so new as they says.
Using other elements along with recycling innovations are the future
Server dome, two go in, one comes out.
Reveals the folly of “tailpipe environmentalism” in our digital age.
thats the emptiest data center i’ve ever seen, normal datacenter have rows of servers every 4 1/2 feet
The heat could be reused and the center life span added to!
swamp coolers don’t work too well in high humidity environments.
other than that the mostly passive design is good.
just replace the swamp coolers with heat pumps or argument them with heat pumps.
Does this hold more racks? Than traditional datacenters?
This is a bronze age roundhouse. About 4000 year old tech. Nice try lads.
Microsoft Underwater Database just laughing…
Dome, round.
Racks, rectangular.
nuff said.
Uh, data centers use seawater, which as you can see is actually a benefit since we don’t want our seas to rise. Why wouldn’t you want them to use more of it? 😉
Do you have to dehumidify the air pumped in through water for cooling?
This would be easy to 3d print.
Boring.
also many new processors start to consume more power again because of the hard competition these days…
I love this conceptually, but it feels like it is missing an additional opportunity–Hydroponic, multi-level farming. Using the waste heat to heat up a multi-level greenhouse could work well with the server farm. In the winter, there would be fewer plants and therefore more insolation, and in the summer, the plants would be providing cooling via all-the-things-plants-do-that-create-cooling.
This is a step in the right direction, of course. And I’m glad you’re on this track. I just challenge you to go deeper!