Nvidia's liquid-cooled AI racks promise 25x energy and 300x water efficiency

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust The big picture: As artificial intelligence and high-performance computing continue to drive demand for increasingly powerful data centers, the industry faces a growing challenge: how to cool ever-denser racks of servers without consuming unsustainable amounts of energy and water. Traditional air-based cooling systems, once adequate for earlier generations of server hardware, are now being pushed to their limits by the intense thermal output of modern AI infrastructure. Nowhere is this shift more evident than in Nvidia's latest offerings. The company's GB200 NVL72 and GB300 NVL72 rack-scale systems represent a significant leap in computational density, packing dozens of GPUs and CPUs into each rack to meet the performance demands of trillion-parameter AI models and large-scale inference tasks. But this level of performance comes at a steep cost. While a typical data center rack consumes ... Read full article.