Post #3379768
2026-06-21 17:30 UTC
@momo@social.linux.pizza Except none of it us true ... evaporative cooling is almost entirely unused in the AI industry because it doesn't work.
Every NVIDIA chip (which is like, almost the entire industry at this point) uses either air cooling with giant fan walls, or closed loop water cooling with heat exchangers (For GB200-GB300s)
Not arguing the business model of large AI labs though ...
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@Orb2069@mastodon.online 2026-06-21 20:16
@suriele@eldritch.cafe Except, you know... https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/cooling/evaporative-cooling-in-data-centers-why-the-industry-hesitates-to-move-on @momo@social.linux.pizza
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@grob@mstdn.social 2026-06-21 22:48
@suriele@eldritch.cafe @momo@social.linux.pizza a quick internet search says evaporative cooling _does_ work and _is_ used for ai data centers. it works so well that even cutting edge data centers relying on low/no water cooling resort to it sometimes when all else fails. So "none" is doing some heavy lifting there.