What Is a Liquid Cooling Manifold? A Complete Guide for Data Center Engineers
Over the past two years, AI training and inference clusters have pushed rack power density past what traditional air cooling can handle. Racks running at 50kW, 100kW, or higher are quickly becoming the norm. As operators and system integrators scramble to keep up, two components dominate the conversation: the CDU (coolant distribution unit) and the […]
What Is a Cold Plate? How It Works, Types & Applications
Introduction A cold plate is a liquid-cooled heat exchanger that mounts directly on a heat source, such as a CPU or GPU, an IGBT module, a battery cell, or a laser diode. Heat conducts into the plate’s metal base, and coolant flowing through internal channels carries it away to a CDU or heat exchanger elsewhere […]
What Is a CDU (Coolant Distribution Unit) in a Data Center?
TL;DR: A CDU (Coolant Distribution Unit) is the thermal management device at the heart of a liquid-cooled data center. It sits between the facility’s cooling source and the IT equipment’s liquid loop, using an isolated secondary loop to control coolant temperature, flow, and pressure — removing heat from servers and GPUs without ever letting facility […]
What Is Liquid Cooling? How It Works, Types & Benefits
Liquid cooling is a way of removing heat from electronics by circulating a fluid, usually water or a water-glycol coolant, past the hottest components instead of relying on air alone. Because liquid carries far more heat per unit volume than air, it can cool high-power chips in a smaller space and with less fan noise. […]