Industry Analysts Predict Accelerating Shift To Direct-To-Chip Liquid Cooling For Expanding And New Data Centers
NETWORKComputing, Tuesday, October 17,2023
Liquid cooling in data centers is gaining greater interest because has clear advantages over air cooling, enabling greater server density per rack and higher compute performance.
The best industry analysts, by nature, don't tend toward exaggeration and hype. They do careful research in their fields of expertise and are open about how they reach conclusions on where the markets are headed. That's why a recent shift in thinking about liquid cooling has grabbed the attention of everyone in the data center industry.
Direct-to-chip liquid cooling is now being forecast as a clear winner by some of the leading voices in the data center physical infrastructure field, marking a rare occasion where analysts agree that one format will be adopted at a greater rate.
Although liquid cooling has been used in specialized areas for more than ten years, it's becoming more mainstream as companies incorporate compute-intensive AI and machine learning workloads. The increased computing power driven by faster, higher-performing CPU and GPU chips generates significantly more heat than air cooling can accommodate.