A veteran technician laments the shift in daily responsibilities from traditional IT tasks to complex mechanical, electrical, and plumbing concerns driven by extreme power density and the mandatory adoption of liquid cooling for GPU clusters.
Liquid Cooling Inflection
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The liquid-cooling inflection marks a pivot from IT-centric to MEP-intensive design across hyperscale, colo, and edge facilities, demanding immediate shifts in power, cooling, and network infrastructure strategy due to evolving AI workloads.
Vertiv Acquires PurgeRite
Vertiv is making a $1 billion investment in expanding its liquid cooling portfolio through the acquisition of PurgeRite, a strategic move necessitated by the escalating liquid cooling demands of the ongoing artificial intelligence competition.
Following a major trading outage attributed to cooling issues, the author posits that the transient, high-density heat generated by AI compute is fundamentally shifting thermal engineering from a secondary concern to a mission-critical discipline requiring energy storage solutions.