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Liquid Cooling Retrofits: The Challenges of Upgrading an Air-Cooled Building

Many existing data centers were built for air. Adding liquid cooling to them is possible but complicated. Here is what a retrofit involves.

Bringing liquid close to servers raises an obvious question: what happens if it leaks? Here is how operators design, detect and respond.

CDUs pump, filter and control the coolant that flows to liquid-cooled servers. Here is what they do and why their placement and design matter.

A rear-door heat exchanger replaces the back door of a rack with a liquid-cooled coil. It is one of the simplest ways to bring liquid cooling...

Cold plates are the most common form of liquid cooling for AI servers. Here is how they work, from the metal block on the chip to...

Every watt a server uses becomes heat. Here is how air and liquid cooling each carry that heat away, and why AI hardware is pushing the...