Deploying Liquid Cooling in the Data Center

The future of IT thermal management has arrived, and it’s a hybrid of air and liquid cooling technologies. Enterprises are adopting high-performance computing (HPC) for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) model training and inference, causing a fast rise in chip, server, and rack densities, power consumption, and heat levels. Air cooling alone can’t abate hot-running equipment effectively. As a result, many data center teams are strategizing how best to make their coolingstrategy future-ready in support of evolving business requirements. Nearly one in five data centers (17%) already use liquid cooling, whereas another 61% of operations teams are considering it for their facilities.1