How the COOLERCHIPS Program Aims to Improve Data Center Cooling
DataCenter Knowledge, Thursday, November 9,2023
ARPA-E's COOLERCHIPS program is pioneering high-performance, energy-efficient cooling solutions for data centers, with the goal of reducing the power consumption of cooling.
In today's digitally driven world, nothing runs without data. From streaming services and social media platforms to e-commerce and cloud computing, the relentless surge in data generation isn't slowing down anytime soon. Latest estimates place the volume of data generated per day at 328.77 million terabytes, with global projections for 2025 reaching 180 zettabytes.
For context, 1 zettabyte equals 1 billion terabytes of data - and as outstanding as these numbers are, they are expected to swell even higher. This is unsurprising, especially when you consider more data has been created in the last few decades than in mankind's history.
This exponential growth, however, comes with a price - a parallel surge in the demand for data centers to store, process, and distribute all this data.