Ancient Perth aquifer makes space-age computer one of world’s greenest
“The Pawsey Centre employs a cooling mechanism which leverages a shallow aquifer beneath the centre to shed the accumulated heat created by Setonix,” Stickells said.“This removes the need to use cooling towers as the primary cooling mechanism and thus loses no water to evaporation while having sufficient solar generation to run the required pumps.Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre executive director Mark Stickells.Credit:Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre“This means the cooling systems for Setonix have essentially…