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Google's Liquid Cooling

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399 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 25 Aug 25 17:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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m463 ◴[25 Aug 25 19:58 UTC] No.45018271[source]▶
I wonder what the economics of water cooling really is.

Is it because chips are getting more expensive, so it is more economical to run them faster by liquid cooling them?

Or is it data center footprint is more expensive, so denser liquid cooling makes more sense?

Or is it that wiring distances (1ft = 1nanosecond) make dense computing faster and more efficient?

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1. mnw21cam ◴[26 Aug 25 11:53 UTC] No.45025262[source]▶
It's also the fact that a large portion of the power used by a data centre is actually spent on cooling, so anything that will make that more efficient is a cost saving.