The Era of Liquid Cooling

March 11, 2025
A recent special report article series outlines liquid cooling design and infrastructure updates and critical considerations in the AI era.

Thanks to new innovations around manageability, ease of service, and density, liquid cooling is quickly becoming integral to data center design–not because it’s a trend, but because it’s a necessity. With the growing demands of artificial intelligence, data centers must rethink the way they cool their facilities. Air cooling is not sufficient to tame the heat generated by AI applications and other high performance computing systems. We have officially entered the era of liquid cooling.

Liquid Immersion Cooling Will Save the Data Center: Critical Design and Infrastructure Updates, featuring Hypertec, explores recent liquid cooling design and infrastructure updates and critical considerations in the AI era. Check out our recent article series focused on the special report:

Liquid Cooling in the Data Center is a Good Thing: Much has changed in the liquid cooling since the last Data Center Frontier Special Report on the topic was published. We kick off our article series by exploring critical liquid cooling design and infrastructure updates. We also discuss why liquid immersion cooling will save the data center.

Liquid Cooling: A Year in Review: The rapid adoption of AI and machine learning applications has dramatically changed the data cooling landscape. In this article, we continue our look at liquid cooling design and infrastructure updates and critical considerations in the AI era by outlining some of the biggest developments in the past year.

Liquid Cooling: Updated Designs and Applications: In our third article in the series, we dive into liquid immersion cooling design considerations and explain modern immersion cooling technology. We also discuss the power of immersion-born GPU servers.

Getting Started on a Liquid Immersion Cooling Journey: We conclude our article series on critical liquid cooling design and infrastructure updates and why liquid immersion cooling will save the data center. In this article, we outline steps for getting started on your liquid immersion cooling journey.

Download the full report, Liquid Immersion Cooling Will Save the Data Center: Critical Design and Infrastructure Updates, featuring Hypertec, to learn more.

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