Dense array of rough copper pillars on a copper plate. A new 3D-printed cold plate used for liquid-cooling high-power computer chips consists of an array of computationally designed, bumpy copper ...

Mechanical engineers have designed a more effective and energy-efficient technology for cooling computer chips. Published in Cell Reports Physical Science, the researchers used a mathematical ...

The researchers reported that their optimized copper cold plates delivered up to 32% better cooling performance than conventional cold plates in liquid cooling, while also reducing pressure drop by as ...

Cutting cooling costs: Copper cold plates designed via algorithms and 3D‑printed in pure copper could reduce cooling energy use to just 1.1% of a data center’s total load. Zero‑water designs: Johnson ...

As of 2025, single-phase direct-to-chip (D2C) cooling remains the dominant solution for high-end GPU thermal management. However, as thermal design power (TDP) continues to climb, two-phase D2C ...

Greg Alexander is senior thermal engineer at Motivair by Schneider Electric The smartest strategy isn’t choosing one approach over the other indefinitely, but aligning cooling decisions with current ...

IDTechEx estimates that around $55,000 is needed for cooling components per GB200 server rack As AI workloads continue to scale, driven by GPU-dense platforms such as NVIDIA's GB300, G200, and H200 ...