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Photos: Inside Big Blue's big green datacentre

Going wild with hot and cold aisles

Tags: cooling, ibm, datacentre, server

By Martin LaMonica

Published: 22 September 2009 15:54 GMT


A typical scene from your average datacentre, right? Well, not exactly. This is one half of IBM's Green Innovations Datacentre in Southbury, Connecticut, where Big Blue's internal IT staff pushes the green envelope. This facility, which hosts several internal IBM applications, is packed with millions of dollars' worth of IBM hardware, of course, but also some of the latest energy-efficiency techniques.

On the far right, you can see one of those: a back door heat exchanger designed for its high-end iDataplex server system. Called Cool Blue, the system circulates cold water through the door to lower the temperature of the heat coming from servers' fans.

(Photo credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET News)


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