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Re:Liquid cooling next-gen servers getting hands-on by meepmorp on Monday August 02, 2021 @05:22PM (#28042836)
> How many fans are in a modern server rack? Liquid cooling could theoretically replace all of those with one moving part, one pump impeller.

Or maybe more than one impeller, because at least with the fans, cooling continues if there's a failure in one of them.

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Re:Liquid cooling next-gen servers getting hands-on by sandworm101 on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:46PM (#28043661)
Well, perhaps coolant would be delivered to racks at a particular psi/volume just as electricity is today provided at a particular voltage and current. Then an entire datacenter would be served by a handful of massive pumps. Server racks might then have no moving parts, which couldn't harm reliability.
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