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Google, TCS, and the physics of air-cooling a large data centre | Explained
AI EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Cooling massive one-gigawatt data centres presents significant engineering and financial challenges. While liquid cooling requires higher initial investments, relying solely on air cooling results in ongoing performance and efficiency drawbacks.
WHY IT MATTERS
Choosing between air and liquid cooling directly dictates the economic viability and energy efficiency of next-generation data infrastructure.
Using air-cooling alone to cool a 1-GW data centre is considered impractical; while liquid-cooling imposes higher costs upfront, air-cooling imposes a performance and efficiency tax
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