Immersion cooling: 50 shades of green

Curious about recent expressions of enthusiasm over immersion cooling—techniques dealing with datacenter heat by shedding fans and dumping servers into a dielectric (non-electrically conductive) liquid solution—Faultline has endeavored to dive into the topic. As we plunged, a new name appeared on our radar (or should we say sonar) – Asperitas. To put it simply, Asperitas—launched in 2017—builds the tanks for servers to be immersed in. Tank-builders of any shape or form are not Faultline’s typical interview target, yet the hype around such offerings from organizations involved in processing, delivering and storing huge volumes of video content, do appear to be justified in terms of efficiency and sustainability, at least initially. However, certain caveats remain. Notably, some immersion cooling offerings are…