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Owen Hughes

Microsoft unveils new liquid-cooled computer chips — they could prevent AI data centers from massively overheating

Channels etched into silicon.

Microsoft engineers have devised a new way to keep data centers cool — and it might help prevent the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) hardware from cooking itself to death.

The technology is based on "microfluidics" and involves pumping liquid coolant through tiny channels etched directly into silicon chips.

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