Cool(ing) Ideas for Tropical Data Centers

Tropical climates could make racks of hot-running data servers even hotter. But researchers in Singapore are now testing ways to cool this trend, sustainably. The National University of Singapore in Queenstown (NUS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTUS), together with Singapore’s National Research Foundation and Infocomm Media Development Authority, as well as 20 IT companies, have collaborated to establish the industry’s first data center testbed for tropical climates.