Liquid Cooling
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Haas rejects claims that automated data centers fail to create jobs
“People look at data centers and say, oh, it's a big Costco box, and there's two parking, two cars in the parking lot, and all of that is being driven automatically, so there's no jobs. I call BS on that because if you think about whether it's around energy, Li…”
Movva: Liquid cooling packs a megawatt of compute into eight refrigerator-sized racks
“Like, a megawatt of compute You know, you'd imagine this, like, massive data haul, like a huge warehouse, basically, and now you can actually pack that into, yeah, around, like, around, like, eight racks for the compute. Each rack is about the size of a refrig…”
AI datacenters will undergo a massive shift to liquid cooling by 2027
“Well, I think one of the biggest changes that's happening right now from a data center perspective, and you're seeing this with the latest NVIDIA GPUs, and I think you're going to see this in a more profound way over the next two years is the shift from air-co…”
Guthrie: Older Air-Cooled Datacenters Cannot Easily Be Retrofitted for Liquid Cooling
“That's a massive technology change. And it does mean that older data centers that are air cooled, you know, they can't just drop in liquid cooling and be effective.”
Sharp: Liquid cooling requires constant power to prevent chip damage
“If you're liquid cooled, the thermal doesn't just displace itself, so you have to continually run liquid through that
so you don't damage the chips”
Appenzeller: AI Data Centers Require Liquid Cooling and Distinct Infrastructure
“The kind of data center you built for a classic CPU centric workload and what you built for, you know, a high density AI data center look very different. You need liquid cooling to the rack. You need very different you know, energy supply.”
Garman predicts liquid cooling will make on-prem AI clusters too difficult
“Increasingly, I think that's going to get harder and harder as you move to liquid cooling and larger clusters”