Liquid Cooling: A Necessity for Chinese AI

The massive artificial intelligence infrastructure in China is generating strong demand for more efficient cooling solutions. Traditional air cooling systems are no longer sufficient to handle the heat produced by high-density server clusters used for training and inference of large models.

Lenovo, among others, is offering liquid-cooled servers to meet this need. This transition represents a significant shift for suppliers, who must adapt their technologies to support the new cooling requirements.

For those evaluating on-premise deployments, there are trade-offs to consider carefully. AI-RADAR offers analytical frameworks on /llm-onpremise to evaluate these aspects.