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Re:Servers Too Hot? Intel Recommends a Luxurious Oil Bath by amalag on Saturday September 01, 2012 @10:49PM (#4465957)
The articles around this are interesting and consider how it could become prevalent and they rightfully point to high performance computing. I think another obvious area is countries like India which have very high costs for power and do not have much in the way of existing datacenters.
Re:Servers Too Hot? Intel Recommends a Luxurious Oil Bath by tmurray on Saturday September 01, 2012 @11:50PM (#4466064)
Immersion cooling was used on the Cray-2 supercomputer with Fluorinert[1]. Water cooling is fairly common in high-end supercomputing setups (I think all the BlueGene systems are water-cooled, for example).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2