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1.- Data centers consumed 5% of global energy in 2016, projected to increase to 20% by 2025, with high water usage and emissions.
2.- Immersion cooling technology can make data centers much more efficient by directly cooling servers in a liquid instead of air.
3.- Air cooling is very inefficient, requiring fans, air circulation, large facilities and complex cooling systems that waste a lot of energy.
4.- Liquid immersion cooling is 1500-3000x more efficient at heat transfer than air, reducing cooling energy needs by 95%.
5.- Any server can be made compatible with immersion cooling, only requiring a switch from hard drives to SSDs.
6.- Immersion cooling allows customizing the liquid temperature for each server component's optimal operating range, unlike uniform air cooling.
7.- It eliminates the need for raised floors, hot/cold aisles, fire suppression systems, and enables high density in small spaces.
8.- A 500kW air-cooled data center needs 270 m^2; the same capacity immersion-cooled only needs 70 m^2 and is near-silent.
9.- Lack of adoption is due to legacy air-cooled designs, inertia and resistance to change, despite immersion cooling's benefits.
10.- Immersion cooling can repurpose any existing building into a data center without extensive infrastructure changes.
11.- It extends server lifespans by avoiding temperature swings and vibrations, with synthetic liquids that are non-conductive and biodegradable.
12.- Return on investment is under 1 year for immersion cooling vs 10-15 years for air, with 30-90%+ reduction in TCO.
13.- Immersion can help address the growing e-waste crisis, where 70% of electronics go unrecycled and are often burned in developing countries.
14.- Widespread adoption requires shifting habits and overcoming status quo bias, but the technology is proven and ready to deploy at scale.
15.- Modular, decentralized immersion-cooled data centers can enable edge computing and better integration of variable renewable energy.
16.- The energy savings potential is massive - a wholesale shift could save the equivalent of 1500 1GW power plants globally.
17.- We need to rethink the growth of data from the ground up through conservation, recycling, algorithms, and efficient hardware.
18.- Policymakers and NGOs discuss long-term climate targets while ignoring actionable solutions available today like immersion cooling.
19.- Technology buyers need to make sustainability a key criterion and educate themselves on efficient options like immersion cooling.
20.- Inaction on data center efficiency is increasingly unacceptable given the urgency of climate change and scarcity of energy and water.
21.- Cooling servers is best done by cooling the heat-generating components directly in liquid, not by cooling the entire room air.
22.- Liquids used in immersion cooling are non-toxic, biodegradable, synthetic fluids that are safe and environmentally benign.
23.- Immersion cooling can make use of waste heat for other applications, further improving the efficiency of data infrastructure.
24.- We need World Bank-level coordination and long-term thinking to make sustainable digital infrastructure a global priority and standard.
25.- Solutions exist today to dramatically improve data center efficiency and sustainability, they just need to be deployed at scale immediately.
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