Post by Tony Grayson

Buried in the details of the Vera Rubin launch was a number that likely made mechanical engineers start to cry: 45°C (113°F). This single shift enables us to reduce compressor hours materially, chiller energy use, and chiller-plant capex for high-density designs. To the layman, that sounds like a minor spec detail. To a data center infrastructure veteran, it is a regime change: The era of the "Meat Locker" data center is ending, so it's time to burn those sweatshirts and invest in good steel-toed flip-flops! If you just spent hundreds of millions of dollars building a capex-heavy chilled-water plant for your new gigawatt-scale campus, you need to re-evaluate that design. You may have built a surprisingly expensive refrigerator for a workload that is perfectly happy with a radiator. Well, I guess you can use it for the new data center kegerator (maybe that should be a new startup)! Infrastructure Masons Nomad Futurist Data Centre Magazine Data Center Frontier Data Center Knowledge DatacenterDynamics Northstar Enterprise + Defense NVIDIA #nvidia #cooling