"What kind of technology is this?" Zuckerberg couldn't help but ask.
"This is our company's ultimate secret, so please don't ask too many questions!" Boss Huang said very decisively. In fact, this was the initial application of a base-five computer.
After the initial breakthrough, this set of Five Elements data servers was born based on base-five computer chips and programming languages. Although the performance of these servers was about five times that of the current strongest servers, they were actually using very basic base-five chips and architecture.
It wasn't that Boss Huang was hoarding technology; it was just that Jiangnan Group's technology could only reach this level. Because the functions of data storage servers are relatively simple and do not require a lot of computational services, the current progress of the base-five system could barely keep up. However, if it involved complex computer operation chips, it would not be adaptable to the current base-five system.
Therefore, Jiangnan Group could only produce data-type servers for now. As for computing servers, they would have to wait a few more years.
It was like a pyramid that had just been built. The closest parts, such as data storage servers, required relatively simple calculations, but the volume was very large, which was precisely suitable for the capabilities of the base-five computer system.
Of course, Boss Huang certainly wouldn't tell Zuckerberg about these circumstances, and instead, he very mysteriously refused to reveal any answers.
"But what about the heat dissipation? Are these machines of yours really on?" After learning that he couldn't know the secret of the Five Elements server, Zuckerberg could only shift his attention to the heat dissipation of this set of equipment.
"Of course, they are on!" Huang He smiled and said, "As for the heat dissipation, haven't you noticed that there are tubes connecting these devices?"
"That's true!" Zuckerberg's eyes lit up. With that said, he had indeed noticed the difference in these servers. All the servers had tubes, and the tubes of multiple sets of machines were connected to each other.
Looking more closely, one would find that these tubes were inserted from outside the room and then exited from an outlet.
"These tubes are used for heat dissipation!" Zuckerberg was not foolish. Boss Huang had specifically pointed this out, so he quickly guessed that this was probably the secret to heat dissipation.
"Are these tubes filled with low-temperature gas?" Zuckerberg asked with a frown. "But if that's the case, the cost would be very high. The expense of preparing these low-temperature gases alone would be equivalent to twice the cost of air conditioning. It would be better to directly use air conditioning to cool down!"
"No, it's not gas in here!" Boss Huang smiled slightly and said, "Actually, it's liquid!"
"Liquid!" Zuckerberg's eyelids couldn't help but jump. Then he said, "It's not impossible for you to use water cooling, but the power consumption of water cooling is not much less, and the cooling efficiency of water cooling cannot suppress the high temperatures of server-level equipment. Its thermal conductivity is insufficient to suppress servers!"
"You're talking about the water-cooling technology used in computers, which dissipates heat with a copper cooling piece. Of course, the power is insufficient. But if I directly immerse the chip in water? Wouldn't the thermal conductivity be unparalleled?" Huang He asked with a smile.
"Directly immersing the chip in water?" Zuckerberg was stunned again. Then, Boss Huang snapped his fingers, and a staff member opened the metal casing of a device, revealing the server equipment working inside.
When this server was opened, it was discovered that there were actually twenty working chipsets installed inside, and all of these chipsets were completely enclosed in a transparent box. The entire box was completely immersed in liquid, and these boxes were connected by a liquid pipe and a power data line. The liquid inside the box was flowing at high speed, continuously taking away the high temperature generated by the working chips.
And the outflowing liquid entered another working server group.
"This liquid is a specially developed coolant by us. It has complete insulation properties and will never affect the conductivity of the entire server group or its normal operation."
"In fact, because this liquid completely isolates the effect of oxygen in the air, it can maximize the reduction of oxidation erosion on the main server, thereby greatly increasing the service life of the entire server group!" xxs壹贰
"Normal server groups will experience serious aging of server equipment after about three years of full operation, but this equipment will only show aging after 10 years!"
Gu Ya < / span > "The fundamental reason for aging is the oxidation reaction that erodes the performance of the metal. Immersing the entire server in water can almost eliminate the impact of oxidation."
"At the same time, we adjust the liquid flow rate to be very fast, so we can take away the heat generated by the chipsets as quickly as possible and also connect 10 servers in series!"
"Twenty chipsets form a server group, and 10 server groups form a cooling group. This is the optimal cooling efficiency after our calculations. The temperature of the cooling liquid entering the inlet of the entire cooling group is around 5 degrees Celsius, and after passing through 10 cooling groups, the outflow temperature is around 32 degrees Celsius. This still maintains the highest cooling efficiency, allowing each server group to dissipate heat fully."
Boss Huang explained the working principle of this server group in detail.
"Doesn't that require a very large amount of cooling liquid?" Zuckerberg asked. "What is the manufacturing cost of these cooling liquids?"
"Not much. The circulating cooling liquid used in this machine room is about 30,000 liters, and the cost is only over 5 million US dollars. Spread out, each liter of liquid is only a little over a hundred US dollars!"
"Of course, this price is indeed a bit expensive, but the cost is worth it. If such a server group used electricity for heat dissipation, it would consume 5 million in electricity bills in three months!" Huang He said with a smile.
"But don't your liquids need to take away the heat?" Zuckerberg asked with annoyance. "Your cooling system should be circulating, so how do you reduce the temperature of the cooling liquid at over 30 degrees back to 2 degrees?"
"This requires utilizing the power of nature!" Boss Huang chuckled and said, "I won't hide it from you. The base is by the sea, and in this 30,000-liter cooling system, 5,000 liters of liquid circulate within the machine room, while the remaining 25,000 liters are immersed in the deep seawater through extremely thin heat dissipation pipes. The water temperature is maintained between 0 and 5 degrees Celsius!"
"The cooling liquid passes through copper pipes and must be immersed in seawater for at least 20 minutes. This will reduce the water temperature from 32 degrees to about 5 degrees Celsius, completing a full cooling liquid cycle!" Boss Huang said with a smile.
"Amazing!" Hearing Boss Huang's explanation, Zuckerberg couldn't help but praise Boss Huang's methods.
This method was indeed extraordinary. Huang He was using seawater immersion for cooling. With the vast scale of the sea, such a small amount of temperature would not have any effect on the seawater.
In this way, the entire cooling system had no refrigeration costs. The temperature could be completely handed over to nature. The electricity cost, apart from the pressure pumps, had no other cost, reducing the electricity bill from millions of dollars to just a few thousand dollars.
Of course, the construction cost of this cooling system was very high, requiring specialized design and site selection around the entire system. It had to be a special location close to the sea where one could directly access deep water areas.
In addition, millions of dollars for cooling liquid were needed... but this cost was insignificant compared to the heat dissipation cooling pipes built at the bottom of the sea. Such a massive underwater heat dissipation system would cost at least twenty to thirty million dollars to build.
However, even if it cost twenty to thirty million dollars, it saved an incredibly huge amount of money. And compared to the massive system that he originally planned to build in Colorado, which relied on the terrain of the valley and wind for heat dissipation, it saved a lot of money.
"Boss Huang, have you applied for a patent for this heat dissipation system?" Zuckerberg asked slyly. He thought the idea of this heat dissipation system was too brilliant. If there was no patent, he would copy it directly when he went back.
"There is naturally a patent, but to be honest, if someone wants to bypass the patent, it's also very simple!" Boss Huang said cheerfully. "However, this cooling liquid is indeed specially developed by us at Jiangnan Group. You won't find another cooling liquid in the world that can achieve such cooling effects. You know, the biggest problem with this entire cooling system is how to ensure that the cooling liquid does not interfere with the computer's operation. We spent over hundreds of millions of dollars to develop this liquid!"
"..." Zuckerberg fell silent. It seemed that Boss Huang had made up his mind to make a fortune using these cooling liquids.
In fact, Boss Huang's words were partly true and partly false. First of all, hundreds of millions of dollars were indeed spent on this cooling liquid, but this cost was not used on the cooling liquid itself. Instead, it was the funding for developing the special properties of black gold and other compounds. These cooling liquids were just incidental byproducts of his research, completely unexpected joys.
"Furthermore, because the heat generated by our servers is indeed very high, ordinary heat dissipation systems cannot support it. Therefore, the servers we sell will be equipped with such liquid cooling systems. So, Mr. Zuckerberg, you don't have to worry about building an additional liquid cooling system. We at Jiangnan Servers will be responsible for helping you build them!" Boss Huang said cheerfully. "And this service is completely free, with no charges whatsoever!"