#Industry News
Liquid Cooling, the Required Answer of the AI Compute Era
40-50kW Racks vs the 8-15kW Standard, Air Carrying 1/3,500th of Liquid's Heat: Why Air Cooling Cannot Hold AI
AI training chips push single racks from a few hundred watts per server to tens of kilowatts per cabinet, a full AI rack hitting 40 to 50kW against the traditional 8 to 15kW design standard, and air carries roughly one 3,500th of the heat of liquid, so air-cooled rooms spend 0.4 to 0.6 kilowatt-hours on cooling for every one on compute while liquid cooling drops PUE to 1.1 to 1.2. Cold plate, the mainstream, puts a microchannel plate on the chip, while immersion wraps every heat source and spray jets hotspots. EXTRCOOL provides one-stop liquid cooling solutions."