NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang revealed that the company’s upcoming DGX AI system will introduce liquid cooling technology to bring new development opportunities to the data center field.
This news was disclosed at a conference and attracted widespread attention in the industry.
As liquid cooling technology gradually advances in the fields of data centers and AI servers, companies have invested heavily in the research and development and manufacturing processes of liquid cooling equipment. However, the implementation of liquid-cooled data centers will require significant research and development efforts and corresponding infrastructure to maintain. The benefits of liquid cooling include more efficient cooling and higher server rack density, which improves overall data center performance.Although liquid cooling technology has clear advantages in performance optimization, its high construction costs and complex maintenance requirements have been major obstacles to its promotion. In this context, companies such as AMD and Intel have previously announced plans for liquid-cooled servers, and NVIDIA has also officially joined the competition.
However, Patrick Moorhead, founder, CEO and principal analyst of Moor Insights & Strategy, made an interesting point. He pointed out that so far we have tried our best to optimize performance at reasonable heat/power levels through various means, from node shrinkage to to decomposing design and packaging, but in the face of existing challenges, do we need more fundamental innovations? In a teasing tone, he said it was time to hit a “reset button” of sorts.
In summary, Patrick Moorhead suggests that the data center industry urgently requires innovation, and merely replacing liquid cooling solutions may not suffice.
