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Google's Liquid Cooling

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399 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 25 Aug 25 17:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.243s | source
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jonathaneunice ◴[25 Aug 25 18:58 UTC] No.45017586[source]▶
It’s very odd when mainframes (S/3x0, Cray, yadda yadda) have been extensively water-cooled for over 50 years, and super-dense HPC data centers have used liquid cooling for at least 20, to hear Google-scale data center design compared to PC hobbyist rigs. Selective amnesia + laughably off-target point of comparison.
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coliveira[dead post] ◴[25 Aug 25 20:48 UTC] No.45018785[source]▶
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1. jsnell ◴[25 Aug 25 21:04 UTC] No.45018990[source]▶
Why make up such an absurd grievance to get fake-outraged about? Nowhere in the article does it say that Google claims to have invented liquid cooling. In fact, nowhere does it say they claim any part of this is a new invention.

But the point of this kind of paper is typically not what is new, it's what combination of previously known and novel techniques have been found to work well at massive scale over a timespan of years.