TECHNOLOGY
The rise of liquid cooling throughout the data centre industry is largely the rest of what Joe Capes , CEO of breakout liquid cooling firm LiquidStack , calls “ a perfect storm .” As demand for increasingly powerful , increasingly dense compute architectures rises throughout the industry - in support of growing artificial intelligence ( AI ), machine learning ( ML ) and high performance computing ( HPC ) adoption , the need for increasingly sustainable practice through reduced energy and water consumption is putting data centre operators in a seemingly impossible situation .
“ Cooling accounts for around 45 % to 50 % of an air-cooled data centre ' s energy consumption ,” says Capes . “ And , for the most part , the data centre industry has wrung out every last drop of efficiency that can be found in air cooling .” However , the compute power - and subsequent energy draw - of server components is still on the rise . Increasingly , the industry is waking up to the potential of liquid cooling to reconcile these two seemingly-mutuallyexclusive trends .
“ Right now , there ' s a tremendous amount of investment happening in the cloud services and hyperscale communities into
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