{"id":3092,"date":"2026-06-23T03:24:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/nvidia-says-its-ai-data-center-design-runs-hotter-to-use-a-lot-less-water\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T03:24:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:24:32","slug":"nvidia-says-its-ai-data-center-design-runs-hotter-to-use-a-lot-less-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/nvidia-says-its-ai-data-center-design-runs-hotter-to-use-a-lot-less-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia says its AI data center design runs hotter to use a lot less water"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Graphic image of a data center.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/STKS528_DATA_CENTERS2_D.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public pushback against data centers has emphasized their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/845831\/ai-chips-data-center-power-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">water and energy consumption<\/a>, and now Nvidia is <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/blog\/liquid-cooling-ai-factories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highlighting<\/a> its claim that the Rubin generation reference design for a fully liquid-cooled data center has \u00ab\u00a0eliminated massive amounts of power usage and pretty much all water usage.\u00a0\u00bb Still, it doesn&rsquo;t address all of the concerns around AI data centers, including during their construction, and for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/870422\/data-center-ai-gas-power-surge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">power generation requirements<\/a> of the massive facilities. Also, as <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/nvidia-touts-100-reduction-in-water-use-with-new-data-center-design-2000775354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Gizmodo<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>points out, Nvidia&rsquo;s blog post doesn&rsquo;t mention the cost of building this style of data center vs. one using less efficient air cooling, but claims that \u00ab\u00a0every cloud  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/954139\/nvidia-data-centers-rubin-liquid-cooling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public pushback against data centers has emphasized their water and energy consumption, and now Nvidia is highlighting its claim that [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}