• tal@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    I am thinking that maybe more liquid cooling will happen with the whole AI thing on the datacenter side. That has a lot of parallel compute cards generating a lot of heat. Easier to move it with liquid than air.

    Some other liquid-cooling annoyances:

    • Cases don’t really have a standard-size mounting spot for the radiators.

    • I want to use one radiator for all of the things that require cooling. Like, I’d rather have an AIO device that provides multiple cold plates.

    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      I really doubt liquid is easier for a data center. They have airflow solved pretty well and noise doesn’t really matter. Liquid failing could potentially do way more damage, and might require shutting down whole areas for repair/damage prevention in the case of a single leak.

      If they did do liquid at scale, it wouldn’t be done in a way it would work down to consumers. It would be like custom boards with full coverage blocks for the whole system that tied into whole room water chillers or something.