• Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Get Tom’s Hardware’s best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. • You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Walk into any modern AI data center, and you’ll immediately be hit in the face by heat. • Even before you’ve set your eyes on the racks, you feel the output of rows upon rows of servers pushing air through increasingly dense racks that were never designed for processors drawing the sheer power needed to run huge AI models. • Multiply that across dense training clusters, and the thermal envelope becomes one of today’s greatest engineering constraints. • Now, according to reporting by theSouth China Morning Post, China is accelerating investments in liquid cooling technology. • Dozens of Chinese companies - including Envicool, whose shares have more than tripled over the past year - have announced plans to expand into liquid-cooling systems to prevent AI racks from overheating.
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- China is rapidly adopting liquid‑cooling systems for its expanding AI data centers, driven by the high heat output of exaflop‑scale clusters. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology reports 42 “10,000‑card” clusters with over 1,590 exaflops, largely built around high‑power AI accelerators that exceed the cooling capacity of conventional air‑cooled racks. Liquid cooling-using cold plates, manifolds, and dielectric fluids-offers far greater heat removal and enables higher rack densities. Domestic firms such as Envicool are expanding into this market, with shares tripling and major clients including Nvidia, Alibaba, and Tencent, as China seeks to localize its cooling supply chain.
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