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An AI agent running on NVIDIA's DGX Spark gets priority cooling treatment in a data center, highlighting infrastructure needs for AI workloads.

The article explores the use of recycled water, including from urine, as an alternative to cool AI data centers, discussing existing water treatment technologies and their potential to reduce environmental impact.

A pro tip for managing GPU temperatures in stacked setups, recommending the use of NVML to adjust fan speeds on cooler cards for better performance.

This article critiques the SpaceX-NVIDIA Starmind AI1 orbital data center concept, arguing that space is impractical for cooling AI hardware due to radiation-dominated heat rejection and massive radiator requirements. It highlights the technical hurdles of building and launching a million AI satellites.

A PSA reminding owners of older GPUs like the RTX 3090 to replace dried-out thermal paste, which can lower temperatures by 10°C and reduce fan noise. It's a cheap, quick fix but requires care.

Jeff Geerling details how to get 25 Gbps Ethernet on a Mac Studio using a budget Thunderbolt 3 to OCP 2 NIC adapter, including performance tests and fixes for overheating issues.

A Wired article recommending four best home air conditioners for extreme heat, including the Midea U-Shaped unit and Zafro Lullaby Duo Portable AC, highlighting features like quiet operation, smart controls, and energy efficiency.

The article explores the rising demand for air conditioning in Europe due to more frequent heat waves, the political debate around it, and the need for efficient, equitable cooling solutions.

A user shares their experience reorganizing four RX 6000 GPUs on an Asrock romed8-2t motherboard, discusses adding a UPS, and asks for recommendations to expand to eight GPUs with better cooling and a server rack.

GMKtec launches the EVO-X3 mini PC featuring AMD Ryzen AI Max 395, advanced cooling, USB4, and OCuLink port for eGPU, priced at $3,600.

This summer's extreme heat is exposing vulnerabilities in data center infrastructure, with grid operators curtailing power, nuclear plants shutting down, and insurers noting severe weather as top cause of loss, raising questions about the industry's preparedness for a warming world.

The article examines the water crisis driven by AI data centers, noting that cooling concentrates thermal load in single watersheds, and proposes distributed compute over idle hardware as a potential solution to spread water and energy demand.

NVIDIA's Rubin generation AI servers achieve 100% liquid cooling with a 45°C coolant temperature, drastically reducing energy and water consumption in data centers.

Proposes using desalination integrated with data center water cooling systems to address water usage concerns, with the resulting fresh water added to municipal supplies.

Scientists and startups are developing solid-state air conditioners that use materials like gadolinium and bismuth telluride to move heat without refrigerants, but experts question whether they can match traditional AC efficiency.

An article about a new cooling technology that uses light to achieve rapid cooling, potentially revolutionizing thermal management in electronics and other fields.

Ferveret, an MIT spinout, has adapted nuclear reactor heat transfer techniques to create a liquid cooling system for data centers that improves computational power efficiency by 15% and allows 35% more tokens per watt, using zero water.

China has fully operationalized an underwater wind-powered data center 10 km offshore from Shanghai with 24 MW capacity, using seawater cooling to reduce electricity consumption by 22.8%, eliminate freshwater use, and cut land use by over 90%. The project serves as a proof-of-concept for offshore underwater data centers as a sustainable alternative to land-based facilities.

Data center operators are grappling with water scarcity issues, with tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI pledging to reduce water consumption through alternative cooling methods and water replenishment initiatives.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said that orbital data centers may provide nearly unlimited space for AI infrastructure expansion in the future. The biggest challenge is heat dissipation, but he believes it can be solved through engineering.