{"id":1336,"date":"2009-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otava.test\/the-power-of-cold-in-data-centers\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T08:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:27:12","slug":"the-power-of-cold-in-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/the-power-of-cold-in-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Cold in Data Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Energy use in cooling servers is a growing concern<\/span><\/h4>\n

Mother Nature has endowed Michigan with a strategic advancategorye for those of us operating datacenters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The deep freeze she puts us through from November to April dramatically reduces the cooling costs of a datacenter. Why is this important?<\/p>\n

Well, computer servers have been getting twice as fast every 18 months. Twice as fast is twice as hot<\/span>. At the same time they are getting smaller.<\/p>\n

Twice as hot and smaller every 18 months over 20 years (since the PC started) and you’ve got some really really hot small pizza boxes.<\/p>\n

At the same time, cooling technology has gotten only slightly better each year.<\/p>\n

The result? Soon we will spend as much to cool a server as to buy it! The colder it is the less AC it requires to cool the server.<\/p>\n

So next time you shiver walking down Mainstreet Michigan in February thank Mother Nature. We do.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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