Nvidia liquid cooling system slashes data center water use, but AI's broader water problem persists

Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that's not the same as fixing AI's water problem

Nvidia just announced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically reduce the amount of water a data center uses -- eliminating "pretty much all water usage" inside the data center itself, according to an Nvidia executive in a press release. "The water consumption challenge for data

Nvidia announces liquid cooling system that runs 'hotter than a hot tub' -- promises to reduce electricity consumption and cut water use by up to 100%, but sustainability challenges remain

AI GPU maker Nvidia just announced a "hotter than a hot tub" liquid cooling system that it says will cut water and electricity use. According to the company, this new solution will run coolant -- composed of 75% water and 25% propylene glycol -- at 113 degrees F (45 deg C). By comparison, the water

Hotter Than a Hot Tub: The 45°C Breakthrough to Cool AI's Biggest Machines

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Here is a link to the video instead. Hot tubs sit at about 38 to 40 degrees Celsius, warm enough that most people can only soak for about 15 minutes. NVIDIA's newest AI servers can run their cooling liquid even hotter -- up to 45 degrees Celsius, or 113

NVIDIA's 113°F cooling system brings data center water use near zero

One of the world's leading technology companies, Nvidia, has just unveiled a new data center cooling system that uses a liquid coolant hotter than a hot tub to cut energy consumption. The Californian company's latest Rubin platform can operate using liquid coolant at temperatures up to 113 degrees

NVIDIA claims its new AI data centers use almost no water -- here's what that actually means

As AI races forward, so does one of the industry's biggest environmental challenges: water Training and running AI models requires enormous amounts of computing power, and keeping those powerful chips cool often means consuming large amounts of water. It's become a growing source of concern as

Water joins energy as top AI flashpoint

Why it matters: After spending much of the past year defending data centers' electricity demands, major tech companies driving the AI boom are increasingly making the case that their water use is manageable too. Driving the news: Over the past several weeks, Google, Amazon and Microsoft have each

Cooling just became the most strategic choice in AI infrastructure

AI cooling becomes critical to data center performance and scalability For most of the last forty years, data center performance gains came from one place: smaller transistors. Moore's Law and Dennard scaling did the work. Each new generation of silicon delivered more performance at the same or

Nvidia says its new data center design will fix AI's water problem | Fortune

Nvidia thinks it has the solution for that: its new server infrastructure. The company announced on Monday that its newest AI servers will entirely use liquid cooling, a method that eliminates the need for air-cooling fans that rely on water. Instead, heat will be dissipated by a liquid coolant

Microsoft points to lower water use in AI era

Driving the news: Microsoft said its newest AI-focused data center designs -- first unveiled in 2024 -- do not consume water for cooling during normal operations. * The move is part of a broader effort that the company says has helped improve its water efficiency by nearly 90% since the early

Nvidia says AI's water challenge is largely solved

Why it matters: It's a bold claim with high stakes by the world's dominant chip maker. Data centers are facing growing scrutiny for their use of energy and water, and Nvidia's chips are helping drive the AI boom behind much of that demand. Driving the news: Nvidia announced Monday at London

Nvidia Says It's Figured Out How to Solve This Big Problem With Data Centers

Nvidia's latest announcement goes a step further, proposing to greatly reduce the immense amounts of water (300,000 gallons per day for a mid-size facility) guzzled by data centers to keep their systems cool. In a press release, the chip giant described a coolant for its AI system that is "warmer

India's AI boom cannot ignore its water crunch

India's AI growth risks exacerbating severe water stress as data centers, crucial for AI infrastructure, consume vast amounts of water. Cities like Hyderabad and Bengaluru, already facing shortages, are becoming AI hubs. While AI promises inclusive growth, its physical demands strain local

Elon Musk Gives A Nod As Nvidia Argues AI Data Centers Aren't The Water Drain Many Believe: 'Numbers May

Nvidia Pushes Back On AI Water Consumption Concerns On Monday, in a post on X, Nvidia highlighted findings from the Manhattan Institute showing that data centers account for just 0.2% of daily water usage in the U.S., while arguing that advances in cooling technology are dramatically reducing the

Nvidia claims it can ease water consumption problem for AI data centers

Every technology boom eventually gets a villain the public can picture. For the railroads, it was land grabs. For artificial intelligence (AI), it became a data center quietly drinking a town's water while a chatbot wrote someone's emails. That picture is not imaginary. Massive computing

Microsoft, Nvidia Seeks Alternatives to Solve Datacentre Energy Challenges

While one indicates that datacentres and climate cannot go hand-in-hand, the other seeks to solve a third of the problem While AI giants are busy dreaming of the moolah from forthcoming public offers, some of the old hands in the game seem to focusing real world challenges beyond the hype.