Researchers Develop Heat-Powered Cooling System With AI Data Center Applications

Not just Nvidia: these power and cooling firms are riding the trillion-dollar data centre boom

While Nvidia is synonymous with the AI boom, a lesser-known group of power and cooling equipment suppliers is cashing in on a global data centre construction spree as developers race to avoid infrastructure ​bottlenecks.

Electricity-free cooling system for data centers prototyped by scientists in Germany and Japan

Solid-state cooling could be a game-changer, but can it be scaled up?

Heat-driven elastocaloric cooling with shape memory films - Nature Energy

Efficient thermal management is critical for next-generation energy systems. Elastocaloric cooling with shape memory alloy (SMA) films offers rapid heat transfer, high specific cooling capacity and simple solid–solid heat exchange, but current devices rely on bulky, electrically powered actuators that limit scalability and efficiency. Here we demonstrate a thermally powered shape memory actuator that drives elastocaloric cooling in tailored SMA …

Scientists create motor-free cooling system powered entirely by heat

The era of burning power to fight heat may finally be coming to an end. Researchers at the Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Japan’s University of Tsukuba have introduced the “world’s first” heat-driven, elastocaloric solid-state cooling system.  Interestingly, the system doesn’t require electric motors and runs directly on ambient warmth, waste heat, or sunlight. It links two ultra-thin nickel-titanium (NiTi) shape-memory al…

German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters

How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?