Development of Energy Saving Cooling Technology for Datacenters by Fujitsu
The idea of Energy Harvesting is no news nowadays, with plenty of sources to harvest it from such as thermal or solar. Taking advantage of this idea comes with some challenges to make it economically feasible, leaving some of the potential harvesting technology at the laboratory level. One of the areas where power efficiency can play a major role is in datacenters, where power consumption will hit the roof top with proliferation of cloud services in the near future, where air conditioning used to cool IT resources accounts for some 40% of all the electricity consumed at datacenters. To remedy this problem, Fujitsu has developed a cooling technology which uses heat generated by CPUs in datacenters to produce chilled water which can be used to cool down the server rooms. Read more
