Beyond ServerDome: The bizarre-looking data center that saves water and energy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2024
- 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?
Switch Inc. data centers seem phenomenal as well
Nope.
Underwater data center by Microsoft is more unique.
now use all this heat exhaust ... to generate energy!
It's on our list to capture the heat in the future! Great point! Thank you
The waste heat is far too cold to generate power with any real efficiency. Selling heat to district heating networks is possible though.
@@leerman22 define too cold
@@kingsleyrhuada2110 Can't get a computer chip over 100 Celsius without destroying it or losing performance. Need well over 100C to drive a turbine.
@@leerman22 if you use water yes. There are other fluids with lower tipping point.
And that's why Facebook built a datacenter in Luleå, Sweden. Arctic climate and a cable plugged directly into a hydroelectric dam.
The amazing thing about the ServerDome is that you don't need a hydro damn or snowbank to get amazing efficiency! We appreciate your insight!
@@brucebrady1155 you could also go with Earth pipes to bring in ground temperature stabilized air from the outside. more expensive in the construction phase but operating costs would go down even more. Also would make it look even more like a termite mounds cooling sysem.
@@PandorasFolly Thanks Jason. Great idea!
@@brucebrady1155 you're welcome, I'm full of them
@@PandorasFolly I would like to explore the underground pipes idea, it would be great help if you could explain with some specialize details
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!
i thought that they would use the heat for some other purpose, like heating a greenhouse or electricity generation
It's a good point. We're looking at different options on capturing excess heat! Appreciate your comment!
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Here's to the future!
thats the emptiest data center i've ever seen, normal datacenter have rows of servers every 4 1/2 feet
Do your research. This design is more dense than a square data center and much more green & efficient.
@@brianduke7395 but if its not more profitable big box square data center will prevail
Convert the numbers to the metric system for international viewers
Good point! Thanks
correction: Convert the numbers to the metric system for people who use a system of measurement that makes rational sense. 🙂
Do you have to dehumidify the air pumped in through water for cooling?
l assume that there is a direct air to air heat exchanger somewhere in the path.
@@kidoctane Yes, I assume so too.
No humidifiers are needed
@@brucebrady1301 I said dehumidify...
@@sanjuansteve Excuse my misunderstanding. The Dome naturally does humidify.
Using other elements along with recycling innovations are the future
Huge amount of wasted space in a round dome. Rectangle barns use a stepped roof and do the same thing with no waste.
Yes but they do sacrifice strength, both vs. wind and vs. earthquakes. (Source: grew up on a farm, repaired many roofs.)
We get a very dense amount of compute done in a small footprint. With airflow being crucial to the design, a 360 degree shape maximizes airflow and efficiency. Thanks for your comment!
Wrong! The space makes it more efficient that rectangular barns. Ask Peter Gross!
The heat could be reused and the center life span added to!
Server dome, two go in, one comes out.
also many new processors start to consume more power again because of the hard competition these days...
I cant help but to stare at those pearly whites.
This would be easy to 3d print.
Great idea!! Do it with ServerDomes to lower costs even further.
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? ;)
is it scalable ?
Yes! We can scale it upwards to between 6 & 8MW. Thanks for the question
Does this hold more racks? Than traditional datacenters?
Yes it does. The hub & spoke design is more dense than a typical data center and you can use different kinds of servers making it easily expandable and flexible power usage.
Good luck using one in Arizona.
We have modeled the ServerDome Dome for Dubai. Extra cooling is needed but we outperformed all existing DC's impressively! It's surprising how well the Dome works even in hot places like AZ!
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Reveals the folly of "tailpipe environmentalism" in our digital age.
Than having also a turbine in the roof, wich generates some power from all the heat would be also great an shouldn't be very expensive 🤔
Thanks for your comment!
This is low quality heat we're talking about.
At such low density in these domes, without a huge number of services (and these are too small for that), the amount of latent heat that gets generated wouldn't be enough to be useable to make a pot of coffee. You need VERY high waste heat for this to be useful for anything other than recirculating into office areas for comfort heat (augmentation). And in the summer months it's lost enterally. The heat from one row of those racks wouldn't warm you soup in 4 hours.
@@locomokko though I agree that parasitic heat is not enough to generate significant amount of electricity, it would certainly be enough to heat a bowl of soup or make a cup of coffee, if you prevent heat dissipation and concentrate it in one spot.
I mean they are using hundreds of kilowatts there.
Looks like a GoldenEye level
JohnnySwim poster!
Servers got dome
Great humor!
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.
Yeah, they did mention they were in Oregon, which is not humid very often in the warm months.
great idea, but i think the undersea would be a better option, like what microsoft did.
For 5G networks, undersea data centers may not be an option for people further inland, eg: Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Kansas, etc. Any data coming all the way from a remote undersea data center to an inland customer would suffer from poor latency or lag, which many professional and even amateur competitive gamers are sensitive to. A localized data center is always more ideal to reduce latency and improved availability/reliability, so this serverdome concept could be a top consideration for ISPs.
Thanks! With latency being a growing issue, we can get great efficiency anywhere in the world (even without an ocean!)
@@Xenosource Agree! Appreciate your comment and insight!
Dome, round.
Racks, rectangular.
nuff said.
This is a bronze age roundhouse. About 4000 year old tech. Nice try lads.
Microsoft Underwater Database just laughing...
Ok
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Not so new as they says.
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Is it scalable?
Yes! To the point where the thermal buoyancy breaks down (around 7-8 MW per Dome).