Cooling copper plates could slash data center energy use by 90%
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The energy consumption of the data centres has a problem that rarely appears in the headlines: 30% of the electricity they consume is not used to calculate anything. It is spent on keeping the servers cold. In 2025, the data centers of the world consumed 485 TWh of electricity; the equivalent of the annual consumption of whole Sweden was destined only for cooling.
Data centers consume gigantic amounts of electricity, and a surprisingly large proportion of it does not flow into computing itself, but into cooling. Mechanical engineering engineers: within the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have now developed copper cooling plates, which could reduce this share from over 30 percent to around 1.1 percent of total energy consumption. This is made possible by a combination of algorithmic form optimizati…
Cooling copper plates could slash data center energy use by 90%
In 2025, data centers consumed 485 TWh of electricity. Thirty percent of that, more than the entire annual power consumption of Sweden, went to cooling. Scientists have developed a 3D-printed copper-plate cooling tech that can slash this figure by over 90%!Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, EngineeringTags: University of Illinois, Cooling, Data Center, Metals, 3D Printing
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