Supermicro’s new server uses a self-contained liquid cooling system, and vendors outside of the IT infrastructure market are showing interest in the technology.
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With data center servers running hotter and hotter, the interest in liquid cooling is ramping up with vendors announcing servers that feature self-contained systems and businesses with expertise in related technologies jumping in.
Liquid cooling is more efficient than traditional air cooling, and Supermicro is using it to cool the hottest processors in a new server designed as a platform to develop and run AI software.
The SYS-751GE-TNRT-NV1 server runs hot. It features four NVIDIA A100 GPUs that draw 300W each and are liquid-cooled by a self-contained system. Trane and Castrol show interest in liquid cooling
LiquidStack is trying to mainstream liquid-immersion data-center hardware and has found a partner and investor in HVAC leader Trane Technologies, which makes cooling systems.
Liquid stack says the investment will help it develop technology to significantly reduce data-center carbon footprint, water consumption, and e-waste.
LiquidStack says it will use the new funding primarily to ramp up manufacturing and open a new US facility to house research-and-development labs, factory-acceptance testing, and a service-training center.
The company claims its two-phase immersion cooling reduces data-center mechanical equipment energy use by up to 40% vs. air cooling, requires a 33% lower Capex, has a 32% lower TCO, and can reduce by 69% the space occupied by data-center IT and networking gear.
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