Microfluidic cooling could lead to more efficient datacenters
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With microfluidic cooling, liquid flows through channels etched onto the back of a chip. The trick is making sure the channels, about the width of a human hair, are deep enough to prevent clogging but not so deep that the chip becomes more likely to break.
Two things here -
- Since the coolant does not need to cool the metal stuck to the chip, it does not need to be as colder. So less energy.
- During spike in demands, you could overclock, instead of scale so less machines, possibly.