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there are six 10 000 computers completely

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submerged in here like no really this

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entire rack is filled with a solution that cools better than water dissolves

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in water and it's absolutely 100

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safe but how can fellow canadians hypertech get away with dunking in this

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very expensive gear like their luke aka

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slick pc i'll tell you how

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anyone who's been a fan of the channel will know that we've built several total

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immersion mineral oil pcs so like what's new here

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well this isn't mineral oil nor is it some

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flammable alternative this tank which is a show tank that's about half the actual

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length is filled with a dielectric or non-conductive mixture that's

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significantly lighter than most popular alternatives while also being better at

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conducting heat given that's pretty much its only

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purpose any improvement there is obviously welcome to add insult to

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injury the mixture is also a lot better for the environment it breaks down

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safely in water mineral oil by comparison is a petroleum byproduct with

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a laxative effect at best and is a carcinogen at worst i'm told that this

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mix is straight up safe to drink not that i really wanted to try it after

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being on the showroom floor for three days but i did end up getting some

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splashed into my mouth so i can tell you that it doesn't taste great that was

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warm also i tasted some i'm assured that it's not 3m's novak 649 as well

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that stuff likes to boil and is dangerous to inhale they wouldn't tell

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me what this stuff is exactly but it's

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also not a hydrofluoroethane like novak 7000 either

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your guess is as good as mine oh and they're making the chassis out of ocean

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recycled plastics by end of year as well at least that's what they hope to do but

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let's back up a sec server racks in data centers are already

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cooled by high-end air coolers and even liquid coolers so why are we even

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talking about this well there's a few reasons first and

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foremost this rack has zero fans and is basically silent by

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comparison it works by pumping the coolant through a loop to an exterior

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box that looks a bit like an hvac unit that box exchanges the thermal energy

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from the hot mixture to a cold water source in a single phase arrangement

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that means practically all of the noise it does make so the pump basically ends

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up well outside of the room because the installation doesn't require

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raised floors or bulky chiller units inside the data center it's relatively

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easy to retrofit into existing architecture what's more because all the

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heat is exchanged well outside of the rack the rack itself needs no hvac to

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cool it something we've struggled with in our own relatively tiny server room

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that means significant power savings because not only does hvac that's beefy

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enough to cool an entire server room or data center require a massive amount of

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juice so too to the high performance fans that you hear screaming inside of those racks

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hypertech claims a 30 to 40 percent reduction in cooling costs compared to

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hvac alone along with a 60 percent better hardware lifespan and to achieve

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that they painstakingly remove all of the fans from the hardware inside of the

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systems and replace their RPM sensors with sensors to monitor the temperature

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of the cooling solution as well as updating the BIOS to understand that

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this results in far less moving parts which are typically the most likely to

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fail all while retaining the original warranty thanks to their partnerships

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with hardware vendors like our good friends at NVIDIA

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speaking of NVIDIA they're part of the reason why hypertech is here to begin

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with with this immersion rack rumor has it that the upcoming newer

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generations of gpus and cpus alike are going to be designed to draw more and

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more power meaning that traditional cooling solutions will struggle to keep

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up without more exotic cooling solutions like hypertexts hypertech says that

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their solution can handle basically any load they can foresee up to nearly a

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hundred kilowatts and they can tailor the installation to meet the demand if

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for some insane reason that's not enough to dissipate all the heat your rack's

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blasting out or i guess soaking out

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now in a traditional data center the systems inside it generate a boatload of

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waste heat like effectively 100 of the electrical energy a computer consumes

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ends up converted to thermal energy or heat

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then we had to use even more electricity

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to get rid of said thermal energy which we call cooling now we've already told

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you how this takes the cooling electricity draw out of the equation but

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what if i told you that the heat electricity draw which there's no way

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around we need that for computers to work could be used for something else

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hypertech claims that 99 of the heat generated inside the loop can be

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captured as water they already have deployments that dump

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the heat into a building's hot water loops and in-floor radiant heating to

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either provide extra thermal capacity to those systems or even power them

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outright that works out to a significant energy

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savings because not only do you then not have to deal with hvac you're also not

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footing as big a bill for water boilers especially

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otherwise you'd have to upgrade a loop as your knees expand

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one thing you might be wondering at this point is

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aren't those ports submerged too and yeah i was wondering the same thing

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when we built our mineral oil pc we let the i o ports on the motherboard and GPU

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exposed but here all hardware maintenance is done with a dielectric

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mix already in the tank and that includes plugging and unplugging

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connectors i'm told that the mixture is thin enough that electrical connections can be made

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reliably although fiber optic cables need to be plugged into their sfp

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transceivers first because of how sensitive they are a thin film of

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dielectric is enough to prevent reliable transmission if you were to just shove

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it in there and speaking of shoving things in there like while you don't

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have to worry about dust build up as you do on traditional air cooling you're

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meant to work directly inside the dielectric so that means oils bacteria

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and yes dust particles will collect inside the loop from time to time

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that's where the loop itself comes in because the coolant is constantly

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cycling they can filter it later down the chain in the easy to access panel

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that makes cleaning much easier than a traditional rack where you'd have to

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dust them individually from time to time they told me you could theoretically

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drop a coffee in there and it'd be okay thanks to that filtration although i'm

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sure they wouldn't recommend trying it if you can help it

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under normal conditions they expect that the coolant will last for about 15 years

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this compared to the two phase coolers that are available now that use evaporation that need topping up every

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two years because they're actually losing the coolant and when the time

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comes for the solution to be recycled the solution can actually be

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reconstituted with a simple dialysis you don't even need to drain it and

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replace it on the show floor here they're trying to attract media companies with render

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farms that need massive GPU horsepower a full-size tank of one of these can

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contain 144 xeon render blades with gpus and

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with the stuff that NVIDIA has been showing off with photogrammetry and ai

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digital twin simulations it's becoming ever more important for some even

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smaller outfits that have access to that kind of compute if the TDP rumors are

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true of NVIDIA's upcoming rtx 40 series aka 8 and lovelace then achieving that

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will come at a significant cost to upgrade existing server racks and that's

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to say nothing of the environmental impact traditional setups will have not

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just running but cooling all of that extra hardware

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it's unorthodox but it might just be a

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crazy like a fox kind of situation that makes more sense the more you think

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about it maybe i can convince Linus to submerge our server room so we don't

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have to stop filming every time the door opens and maybe i can convince you to hear

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about our sponsor MSI MSI's back-to-school sale is on now

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drives oh right i guess that means that it can't be

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submerged oh well