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by jonathaneunice 300 days ago
"From the core to the edges of the server"—what does that even mean?

Unless Google has discovered a way to directly transfer heat to the aethereal plane, nothing they’re doing is new. Mainframes were moving chip and module heat entirely outside the building decades ago. Immersion cooling? Chip, module, board, rack, line, and facility-level work? Rear-door and hybrid strategies? Integrated thermal management sensors and controls? Done. Done. Done. Done. Richard Chu, Roger Schmidt, and company were executing all these strategies at scale long before Google even existed.