Ah, I see. I keep thinking that modern datacenters would looks more like [1], or at least like [2], with direct water cooling. Supermicro servers and even Dell

Ah, I see. I keep thinking that modern datacenters would looks more like [1], or at least like [2], with direct water cooling. Supermicro servers and even Dell PowerEdge servers now have the direct water cooling option. OTOH the cooling of the resulting hot water can be evaporative indeed :( [1]: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/blackwell-platform-water-efficiency-liquid-cooling-data-centers-ai-factories/ https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/blackwell-platform-water-effic... [2]: https://www.gigabyte.com/Enterprise/DLC-Rack https://www.gigabyte.com/Enterprise/DLC-Rack