Nvidia looking into Liquid Cooling to solve the increasingly High Energy Usage.

The Tech Giant has announced that it is officially acting in response to the constant high energy utilization of Data Centers. The solution that the Company has proposed is Liquid Cooled Graphic Cards. Having introduced that its A100 Compute Card will be their first version of Graphics Card that supports Liquid Cooling, Nvidia hopes this initiative would become the new norm for Data Centers and Graphic Cards in general, for the foreseeable future.

The Benefits of Liquid Cooling

As per Nvidia’s own claim, their A100 Compute Liquid Cooled Card will consume 30% less power than their average Air-Cooled Version. Nvidia states that this would make a big impact on the Data Centers and the Tech Industry as a whole, because this would significantly reduce the enormous amount of Energy already used by Data Centers for their Complex calculations and computations. Data Centers utilize over 1% of the World’s Electricity, 40% of that 1% can be attributed to the Data Centers’ overall cooling system, meaning that the worse the cooling system, the more power will be consumed from that 40% and that in-turn will further strain the World’s overall Electricity capacity. With the implementation of Liquid Cooled Graphics Card, the Electricity would almost certainly be capable if being used to a much lesser degree. This as a result would increase the efficiency of GPU-accelerated Systems, which would indefinitely and eventually trump over the current CPU-only accelerated Systems and Servers. Furthermore, in terms of the form factors of Liquid Cooled Graphics Cards, they are found to be significantly less bulky compared to the normal Air-cooled Graphics Cards. This is big positive for the Liquid Cooled GPUs because it would certainly take up significantly lesser space compared to the Air-Cooled GPUs, and therefore will enable more quantities of these GPUs to be fit into the same amount of space.

The Popularity of Liquid Cooling

The advent of Liquid Cooled hardware is not something that is new in the Tech World, in fact in todays day and age of increased quantities of high-performance high demand products, more and more people are turning towards the implementation of Liquid Cooling with their various devices. Some of these devices range from Custom-made Gaming Computers, to even some Mobile Phones such as the Asus ROG Gaming Phones. Various Supercomputers have also now begun to adopt Liquid Cooling due to the increasing intensity of tasks assigned to them. Reports have indicated that the reason for this mass exodus towards the wide adoption of Liquid Cooling devices, is because of the fact that Liquid absorbs heat better than Air. Additionally, it is then easier to cool off a heated Liquid compared to attempting to Cool down the entire Air within the atmosphere in which is device is placed. Therefore, it can be concluded that Liquid Cooling is the right step for Tech with regards to the overall reduction of their Carbon Emissions and various forms of Pollution.

Future Applications for Liquid Cooling for Nvidia

Although a new venture for the Company, it is not a far-fetched idea to think that this Liquid Cooling Technology can be further taken advantage of by Nvidia. With its implementation in Nvidia’s other product offerings such as their RTX Gaming Graphics Cards, the Company can make Liquid Cooling a much more mainstream process for the whole industry, allowing their Competitors like AMD to start adopting Liquid Cooling in their Products as well, all of which would ultimately benefit their Consumers with less Energy usage and higher Power Output. As the Technology progresses, so has the need for new Tech to consume greater and greater Energy, with Nvidia’s own hallmark RTX 3090 Ti utilizing a whopping 450 watts. Judging from these statistics as well as the numerous aforementioned benefits, it would seem that Liquid Cooling is the most feasible next step for Nvidia and similar Companies.