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2012 Air-cooled servers may soon go the way of the single-core
CPU. In high performance computing datacenters, the hottest new
trend in energy efficiency is warm water cooling. IBM, Eurotech,
and a handful of other vendors have paved the way with this
technology and now Appro has announced its own solution in an
attempt to set itself apart from the competition. Warm water
cooling is benefiting from a confluence of industry trends that
have raised the profile of the technology. Especially for the
hotter, denser HPC systems that are being shoehorned into
datacenters these days, warm water technology can offer an
optimal solution, balancing somewhat higher up-front cost with a
much lower lifecycle cost. Compared to traditionally air cooled
systems, liquid cooling (at any temperature) offers better
energy efficiency, thus lowering the power bill. That's because
water has much better thermal properties than air, requiring a
lot less of it to cool a give