Jul 2, 2026 · 19 min · 10 segments
AI is making our technology smarter… but it’s also making it much, much hotter. With higher demand for HPC and enterprise AI, data centres are having to adapt to meet the changing demands on the…
Jason ZeilerGuestMichael BirdHostSam JarrellHost
I think there could be a scenario maybe in 20 years where the servers themselves are designed with liquid cooling first.

And when we look at really basics, taking a server that's being air cooled and the exact same server that's being liquid cooled, often we can see about a 15% power reduction at the server just because we're not using the fans so hard.
Yeah, we've talked about it a little bit on the show before, haven't we? We're having a bit of a heat wave in the UK at the moment.
Yeah, I mean, arguably, we as humans are liquid cooled, but I sort of wish I could be externally liquid cooled.
Read the full transcript.
Create an account to read the whole episode, search across every transcript, and follow the shows you care about.

I think there could be a scenario maybe in 20 years where the servers themselves are designed with liquid cooling first.

And when we look at really basics, taking a server that's being air cooled and the exact same server that's being liquid cooled, often we can see about a 15% power reduction at the server just because we're not using the fans so hard.
Yeah, we've talked about it a little bit on the show before, haven't we? We're having a bit of a heat wave in the UK at the moment.
Yeah, I mean, arguably, we as humans are liquid cooled, but I sort of wish I could be externally liquid cooled.