How To Ruin A Perfectly Good Liquid Cooling System
DCD, Thursday, October 30th, 2025
Three mistakes that can sabotage your liquid cooling infrastructure
Liquid cooling is rapidly becoming the backbone of thermal management in modern data centers, especially as artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads push rack densities to levels that air cooling simply can't handle.
But let's get one thing straight: every data center that needs liquid cooling still needs air. And while the industry is charging ahead with liquid cooling deployments, we're doing so in a landscape with no standards, no traditions, and very little consensus on best practices or even what materials to use. In this environment, there are countless ways to mess things up, and the stakes couldn't be higher.