Intel gives oil bath to its servers

BANGALORE, INDIA: For about a year, Intel kept a handful of its servers immersed in oil, thus testing its Green Revolution Cooling's mineral-oil server-immersion technology, and the result was remarkable.

As per a report on GigaOm, these 'servers ran at a PUE just above 1.0, and showed no ill effects from the oil'.

That too when, traditional air-cooled server racks often operate at a Power Usage Effectiveness rating of about 1.6.

However, that does not mean that Intel is about to replace all the air-cooled servers in its data centres with oil-cooled ones, adds the report.

However, to an extent it does mean that this can be potentially used as a method 'for slashing the price of running a data center'. What do you think?