Liquid Cooling Industry Sees Explosive Growth, Submerged Liquid Cooling Technology Becomes New Favourite

In recent years, as the scale of data centres continues to expand and the demand for arithmetic power continues to rise, the traditional air-cooled heat dissipation method has been difficult to meet the heat dissipation needs of high-density, high power consumption equipment. Liquid cooling technology is becoming a new trend in data centre cooling due to its advantages of efficient heat dissipation, energy saving and noise reduction.
Industry reports show that the global liquid cooling market size is expected to reach billions of dollars in 2023, and will maintain high growth in the next few years. Among them, submerged liquid cooling technology has become the focus of industry attention due to its higher cooling efficiency and lower energy consumption.
Submerged liquid cooling technology completely submerges servers and other equipment in an insulating coolant, which carries away heat through the liquid's efficient thermal conductivity. Compared with the traditional cold plate liquid cooling, submerged liquid cooling can more effectively reduce the temperature of the equipment, while reducing fan noise and energy consumption.
At present, a number of domestic and foreign companies have laid out the submerged liquid cooling field, and launched related products and solutions. For example, Intel launched a server reference design based on submerged liquid cooling, Alibaba, Tencent and other Internet giants have also piloted the application of submerged liquid cooling technology in their data centres.
Experts said that with the continuous maturity of the technology and the gradual decline in cost, submerged liquid-cooling technology is expected to be more widely used in the next few years, to promote the liquid-cooling industry towards a new stage of development.
At the same time, the liquid cooling industry is also facing some challenges, such as low standardisation and high initial investment costs. In the future, it is necessary for the upstream and downstream enterprises of the industry chain to make joint efforts to promote the standardisation and large-scale application of liquid cooling technology, so as to provide strong support for the efficient and green development of data centres.
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