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AI Is Overheating Data Centres - Is Liquid Cooling The Answer?

technative, Friday, December 19th, 2025

As AI workloads push energy demands beyond 40kW per rack, traditional cooling systems that have powered the digital economy for decades are reaching their physical limits, and action must be taken to address this.

A single large-scale data centre consumes as much electricity as 100,000 households. Traditional air-cooling simply cannot keep pace with the thermal demands of next-generation AI hardware. Direct Liquid Cooling is quickly becoming a solution, ensuring organisations around the globe and across industries will have the technological advantages they need to compete and grow in the coming years.

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