Want to move to all 208V for server racks

Matthew Petach mpetach at netflight.com
Fri Dec 3 21:21:07 UTC 2010


On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Alex Rubenstein <alex at corp.nac.net> wrote:
...
> Anyway, back to topic: Vendors, please a) get all your gear to cool front-to-back, and b) let it take 480 polyphase and not require a neutral. I, for one, will be happier. The datacenter of tomorrow (hell, today) require this.
>

People are still feeding their gear with AC?  Save on PS inefficiency,
and feed direct 12/5vDC to the servers.  Save space, save power,
save cooling.

Matt
*quietly exits, singing "every watt is sacred, every watt is great..."
under his breath*




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