HOW CAN EMERGING TECH BOOST HEAT REUSE IN DATA CENTRES AND INDUSTRY?
Rob Campbell, President of Communications, Enterprise & Cloud at Flex talks emerging tech and keeping your cool in a scaling environment.
s computing demands continue to rise,
A particularly with the exponential growth of artificial intelligence( AI) and high-performance computing( HPC), data centres and industrial systems are facing new challenges around heat management. The energy-intensive nature of modern computing infrastructure generates vast amounts of heat, much of which is traditionally treated as waste. However, advances in technologies such as liquid cooling, intelligent thermal design and integrated energy systems are creating new opportunities, helping businesses turn what was once an operational burden into a valuable resource.
Rethinking heat management in high-performance computing
The escalating thermal demands of AI and cloud computing are pushing conventional cooling strategies to their limits.
Traditional air cooling, which has served the industry for decades, is no longer sufficient as rack power densities routinely exceed 50kW, a threshold that once defined the upper end of typical data centre design.
AI workloads are driving this shift, with rack densities expected to rise dramatically in the coming years. NVIDIA forecasts that AI racks could reach 600kW by 2027 and early pilots of 1MW racks are already underway. Hyperscalers and chipmakers are collaborating on new architectures and standards to support this evolution, anticipating broader deployment of 1MW racks before the end of the decade. These ultra-dense
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