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Ecolab’ s Water University includes a customer experience centre, designed to showcase the role of water throughout all of Ecolab’ s businesses and applications up for liquid cooling. We can’ t just ignore that,” he notes.“ Legacy technologies are going to still be very important. It’ s not like we’ re going to transition to entirely new things.”
Looking forward, Ecolab is tracking several parallel development paths. The company is investigating how long current liquid cooling technologies can support ever-hotter chips before more advanced systems – such as twophase cold plates or immersion cooling – become necessary.“ If we can prolong that transition, that’ s really valuable for the industry because you don’ t have to build an entirely new cooling system to cool the new chips,” Rob suggests.
Water reuse represents another emerging priority.“ There’ s going to be more and more non-potable, reclaimed water that can be used in cooling, and figuring out how to do that in a safe way,” says Rob. The challenge extends beyond basic water treatment to understanding how various water sources interact with complex cooling systems and what implementation considerations arise.
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