Google's Liquid Cooling

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.

It's not so surprising when considering googles history coming from inexpensive commodity hardware. It's pretty similar to how it took decades for x86 servers and operating systems to gain mainframe functionality like virtualisation.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/building-a-computer-the-google...