3D-Printed Copper Plates Could Cut Data Center Cooling Energy Use by 97%
EU Warns Energy Prices Will Stay Elevated Through 2027 A breakthrough depolymerization technology is… Haley Zaremba is an energy journalist and researcher with more than a decade of professional experience covering global energy systems, land and natural resources, and… The artificial intelligence boom is creating an energy monster that the world is unprepared and unequipped to deal with.
Providing enough energy to fuel the AI ambitions of the future as well as to support human demand and development will require advances in energy technologies that are as-yet undiscovered.
“There’s no way to get there without a breakthrough,” Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of ChatGPT firm OpenAI, said at the 2024 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
More accurately, it will probably require several breakthroughs.
Altman was referring to the need to fund nuclear fusion research when he made his infinitely quotable statement at Davos, but reigning in the AI energy monster will not only require next-gen energy generation, it will also require a great leap forward in data center design and energy efficiency.
And a team of researchers from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA may have made just such a breakthrough.
An innovative form of 3D-printed copper cooling plates could revolutionize the design of data centers and slash the amount of energy needed to cool them, according to a new scientific paper published in the academic journal Cell Reports Physical Science.
The team of researchers found that their innovative pure copper plate model, which was designed using a cutting-edge mathematical algorithm, uses just a fraction of the energy that conventional cooling plates use.
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The potential impact of this discovery is enormous.
The computer chips used to run the computations for large language models create an enormous amount of thermal energy in a process known asJoule heating.
In the course of one hour, a single computer chip creates roughly enough heat to boil 50 cups of water.
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