{"id":86954,"date":"2019-01-23T10:42:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T18:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-cooler-cloud-a-clever-conduit-cuts-data-centers-cooling-needs"},"modified":"2019-01-23T10:42:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T18:42:30","slug":"a-cooler-cloud-a-clever-conduit-cuts-data-centers-cooling-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-cooler-cloud-a-clever-conduit-cuts-data-centers-cooling-needs","title":{"rendered":"A Cooler Cloud: A Clever Conduit Cuts Data Centers\u2019 Cooling Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-cooler-cloud-a-clever-conduit-cuts-data-centers-cooling-needs2.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The energy use of data centers is a major drag on resources, but they also use a lot of water. Any technology that increases their efficiency while reducing resource waste is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, Forced Physics, a company based in Scottsdale, Ariz., has developed a low-power system that it says could slash a data center\u2019s energy requirements for cooling by 90 percent. The company\u2019s JouleForce conductor is a passive system that uses ambient, filtered, nonrefrigerated air to whisk heat away from computer chips.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The company that created it, Forced Physics, plans to install the technology in a pilot plant in February.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/energy\/environment\/a-cooler-cloud-a-clever-conduit-cuts-data-centers-cooling-needs-by-90-percent\">https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/energy\/environment\/a-cooler-cloud-...90-percent<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The energy use of data centers is a major drag on resources, but they also use a lot of water. Any technology that increases their efficiency while reducing resource waste is a good thing. \u201cNow, Forced Physics, a company based in Scottsdale, Ariz., has developed a low-power system that it says could slash a data [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}