Facebook data centres are chillllly

[spellmanuk]

I guess one way to make your data centre cold it to put it close to put it close to the artic circle. 

 

Gotta keep them memes on ice. 

 

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/29/13103982/facebook-arctic-data-center-sweden-photos

[SLAYR]

That is probabbly millions of dollars worth of savings on cooling costs, with all of those servers it is ridiculous how much heat they output all together.

[spellmanuk]

6 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

That is probabbly millions of dollars worth of savings on cooling costs, with all of those servers it is ridiculous how much heat they output all together.

yeah i thought it was quite a genius solution tbh come time the simplest ideas are the best 

[LogicalDrm]

Google has one of their data center in Kotka (southern Finland). And I read that this FB center could also have been in Finland, but data infrastructure wasn't good enough. That part will change soon. I guess having sea water and 6 cold months is better for cooling purposes.

 

Btw, its funny to see how big deal white filter used in pics will make. Now someone should photoshop those pics with some warmer color filter and try to sell same idea.

[Tieox]

Wonder if they could overclock Macbooks there?

[spellmanuk]

2 hours ago, Kierax said:

Wonder if they could overclock Macbooks there?

I think people have managed it but it doesn't work well as they thermal throttle considerably since there designed to with a fine balance of performance to heat, but sure if you had a giant cooling facility that uses sea water to cool it then sure sure sure sure get that sucker up to 6GHz lol 

[Mark77]

An even better idea would be to basically co-locate these data centers with shopping malls and/or other large buildings that have a heating load.

 

Unfortunately the industry is still stuck on the paradigm of free-standing data centers, instead of integrating the data center with complimentary uses.