The Fjord-Cooled Data Center

The Fjord-Cooled Data Center 195

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @11:18PM from the norwegian-blue dept.

1sockchuck writes "A new data center project in Norway plans to use a fjord-powered cooling system, drawing cold water from an adjacent fjord to cool data halls. The fjord provides a ready supply of water at 8 degrees C (46 degrees F), eliminating the need for an energy-hungry chiller. The Green Mountain Data Center joins a small but growing number of data centers are slashing their cooling costs by using the environment as their chiller, tapping nearby lakes, wells and even the Baltic Sea."

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Re:Queue the screams of hysteria (Score:4, Funny)

by Alien Being ( 18488 ) writes: on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @11:27PM (#38456126)

Won't someone please think of the norwegian blues?

New life to be found (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @11:27PM (#38456132)

Hydrothermal datacenter vent creatures...

Hitchhikers Reference (Score:5, Funny)

by riboch ( 1551783 ) writes: on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @11:29PM (#38456140)

As long as they do not destroy Slartibartfast's fjords then I am "cool" with it.

Really Afjordable Option (Score:5, Funny)

by caffiend666 ( 598633 ) writes: on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @11:30PM (#38456146) Homepage

We're always looking for more afjordable options for data cooling. As long as they avoid the local pines in their construction. No one wants to be pining for the fjords....

Strangely (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @11:32PM (#38456160)

I have been pining for this

Re:New life to be found (Score:5, Funny)

by GeneralTurgidson ( 2464452 ) writes: on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @11:57PM (#38456272)

We call those Interns around here

Re:Queue the screams of hysteria (Score:4, Funny)

by swalve ( 1980968 ) writes: on Thursday December 22, 2011 @12:58AM (#38456592)

The environmentalists invented by Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.

Seems expensive. (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday December 22, 2011 @05:00AM (#38457454)

How do they afforjd this?

Re:Queue the screams of hysteria (Score:5, Funny)

by Whiteox ( 919863 ) writes: on Thursday December 22, 2011 @05:32AM (#38457542) Journal

(PS... Want to buy some bütter?)

Re:Queue the screams of hysteria (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday December 22, 2011 @06:56AM (#38457840)

In Soviet Russia, the Spanish Inquisition doesn't expect you!

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Re:Queue the screams of hysteria (Score:4, Funny)

New life to be found (Score:5, Funny)

Hitchhikers Reference (Score:5, Funny)

Really Afjordable Option (Score:5, Funny)

Strangely (Score:2, Funny)

Re:New life to be found (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Queue the screams of hysteria (Score:4, Funny)

Seems expensive. (Score:2, Funny)

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