In 2025, data centers consumed 485 TWh of electricity. Thirty percent of that, more than the entire annual power consumption of Sweden, went to cooling. Scientists have developed a 3D-printed copper-plate cooling tech that can slash this figure by over 90%!
  • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    21 days ago

    At the data-center scale where air-cooling still dominates, the team estimated that a 1 GW facility using conventional air cooling could require roughly 550 MW of additional power dedicated to cooling infrastructure alone. By contrast, their optimized liquid-cooling approach would reduce that cooling overhead to around 11 MW.

    they are high with these claims, if anything they’ll save some 11MW on the pumps at best