Alibaba to Use Own Immersion Cooling Tech in Cloud Data Centers | Data Center Knowledge
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Alibaba said it plans to contribute the technology to the Open Compute Project, an open source hardware and data center design effort started about six years ago by Facebook. The Chinese company officially joined OCP this week.
Its data center cooling technology has reached production stage, the company said, and will soon be ready for deployment in Alibaba’s cloud data centers.
The concept of submerging servers in dielectric fluid to improve data center cooling efficiency isn’t new. There are several companies selling solutions that use it on the market, the more prominent examples being Green Revolution Cooling and Iceotope.