Liquid Submersion Cooling

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What Does Liquid Submersion Cooling Mean?

Liquid submersion cooling is a procedure that involves putting hardware or other items into a temperature-conductive, but not electrically conductive, liquid.

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This technology is commonly used in large, professional technology applications, such as data centers.

Techopedia Explains Liquid Submersion Cooling

Liquid submersion cooling is sometimes used in data centers and similar technologies. This process brings to IT the same principles used by geothermal systems to heat and cool buildings. Simply put, temperature transfer through liquid replaces the often troublesome process of heating and cooling internal air in order to heat and cool objects in a room or space. Liquid submersion can also provide much more immediate cooling than does conventional air cooling.

Scientists have found specific kinds of liquids that are not significantly electrically conductive in order to make liquid submersion cooling safe. Many of these include synthetic oils and other products specifically made for this purpose.

The liquid submersion cooling technique can be applied to various aspects of data center operation in order to handle the amount of heat that generated by servers and other hardware.

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Margaret Rouse
Technology Specialist

Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.