Why Liquid Cooling Is Essential To The Future Of Data Centers
DataCenter Knowledge, Thursday, February 6th, 2025
As AI drives soaring data center power demands, liquid cooling is emerging as the key to efficiency, reliability, and scalability, writes Rob Campbell.
Today, we stand at a critical moment for the data center industry, with McKinsey & Company reporting that the demand for AI-ready data center capacity is projected to grow at an average rate of 33% annually between 2023 and 2030.
With this degree and speed of growth, data center operators are managing unprecedented demand for power and cooling with the increased power density requirements to support accelerated computing. These challenges are driving innovations to mitigate the heat generated by densely packed AI servers with rapidly increasing thermal design power (TDP) requirements.