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Facility and Operations

Bringing liquid into a real building: CDUs, retrofits, leak detection, and rack density planning.

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Stainless steel quick disconnect coupling threaded into a rack manifold port with a braided hose leading away, seen close and from a low angle.

Pressure Drop Piping Turns 4x Flow Into 52x Hydraulic Power

Pipe, manifold and server-loop figures show how flow drives pressure and pump po…

Brass fitting threaded into an aluminum cold plate manifold with a white corrosion bloom along the joint

Material Compatibility Coolant Sheets Split on Aluminum Use

Three coolant loop sheets ban, condition or allow aluminum, and one test shows w…

Close low-angle view of the finned coil face of an outdoor dry cooler with a copper header pipe and a fan guard overhead under overcast light

Data Center Heat Rejection and the 43 °C Dry Cooler Ceiling

Every hop from cold plate to outdoor coil costs kelvin, and the exit sets the ce…

Close low-angle view of a printed GPU specification table clipped to a liquid cooling manifold beside a quick disconnect fitting

GPU Power Consumption Trend From 700 W Chips to 142 kW Racks

Chip ratings doubled. GPU count per rack pushed the load from 40.8 kW to 142 kW.

Illustration of a steel coolant manifold with a row of quick-connect sockets for server cooling loops

Manifold Flow Distribution Specs Say 5%, Test Racks Show 10%

The Open Compute Project’s Open Rack V3 Blind Mate Manifold Specification,…

Illustration of a motorized shutoff valve on an insulated coolant pipe in a data center plant room

Leak Detection in Liquid Cooling Ends Where Valves Begin

A leak detection rope fires only when electrically conductive coolant touches it…

Illustration of an insulated hose coupled to the steel pipe of a coolant distribution unit

What a Coolant Distribution Unit Does at the Loop Boundary

Open Compute Project’s Project Deschutes specification rates a single cool…

Illustration of a plant room with pipe headers, blue valves and a pump skid in front of cabinets

Rack Power Density Trend: 8 kW Average to 132 kW GB200 Racks

NVIDIA’s own reference architecture puts the GB200 NVL72 rack at 120 kW. H…

Illustration of a cold aisle between server cabinets with large chilled water ducts overhead

Retrofit Liquid Cooling Without Rebuilding the Data Center

Operators rank ease of retrofit into existing infrastructure as the single most …