Why Liquid Cooling Won’t Take Off Until the Industry Fixes One Big Problem

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A Silent Aisle, A Loud Truth The data centre aisle was unnervingly quiet. High-density AI servers hummed with an intensity that pushed the limits of what traditional airflow could sustain. In the middle of this familiar landscape sat a single liquid-cooled node: compact, efficient and completely alone. It looked like a glimpse of the future […]

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Are We Heading into Another Energy Crisis — This Time for AI?

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In recent years, the crypto “energy crisis” sparked global alarm. Bitcoin mining alone consumed roughly 0.4% of global electricity, and crypto‑mining + data centers already made up about 2% of world demand in 2022 [1]. But now, AI workloads—particularly generative and large‑language‑model (LLM) operations—are poised to make an even bigger dent in our energy systems […]

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