Elon Musk's Texas Tesla Gigafactory is expanding to contain an AI supercomputer cluster, and Supermicro's CEO is a big fan of the cooling solution. Charles Liang, founder and CEO of Supermicro, took to X (formerly Twitter) to celebrate Musk's use of Supermicro's liquid cooling technology for both Tesla's new cluster and xAI's similar supercomputer, which is also on the way.
Pictured together among server racks, Liang and Musk are looking to "lead the liquid cooling technology to large AI data centers." Liang estimates the impact of Musk leading the move to liquid cooling AI data centers "may lead to preserving 20 billion trees for our planet," obviously referring to the improvements that could be had if liquid cooling were adopted at all data centers worldwide.
AI data centers are well known for their massive power draws, and Supermicro hopes to reduce this strain by pushing liquid cooling. The company claims direct liquid cooling may offer up to an 89% reduction in electricity costs of cooling infrastructure compared to air cooling.
