Researchers unveil breakthrough that could solve a major data center issue: 'A huge step forward'

Researchers unveil breakthrough that could solve a major data center issue: 'A huge step forward'

Dried banana chips may soon have something in common with high-powered data centers: ionic wind.  It's part of research started at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, known as Empa, that resulted in spinoff company Ionic Wind Technologies. Now, the enterprise is poised to change the way we cool the growing amount of energy-hogging, hot-running data centers around the world — and dehydrate fruit, according to a ne…

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A British Gas-backed trial will see waste heat from data centers used to deliver free hot water to UK homes.