2025-08-25 Hacker News Top Articles and Its Summaries
1. Google’s Liquid Cooling Total comment counts : 6 Summary Liquid cooling is expanding from PC enthusiasts to datacenters, driven by AI’s power demands. Google highlights a datacenter-scale water loop for TPUs: CDUs (Coolant Distribution Units) in racks, two non-mixing liquid circuits, heat transferred via split-flow cold plates; TPUv4 uses bare-die for higher heat transfer. Liquid cooling cuts cooling power consumption (pumps use <5% of air-based fan power). In datacenters, maintenance is managed with no downtime via extra CDUs, extensive leak testing, alerts, and scheduled checks....