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What is liquid cooling?
[AI Summary]
Liquid cooling moves heat off chips using a coolant — water, dielectric fluid, or refrigerant — instead of air. It is the binding constraint for B200 and GB200 deployments, which can no longer be air-cooled at rack scale.
[Detail]
Direct-to-chip (D2C) cooling pumps coolant through cold plates on the GPU and CPU. Immersion cooling submerges full servers in a dielectric bath. The 2026 AI build-out is shifting from air to D2C as default, with Vertiv, Schneider Motivair, CoolIT, Asetek, JetCool, Submer, and LiquidStack supplying the bulk of CDUs and immersion tanks.
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