The Liquid Cooling Inflection: Why Air Can't Cool a 1,200-Watt GPU
NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs consume 1,000 watts each. Vera Rubin will hit 1,800 watts. A single NVL72 rack draws 120 kilowatts. Air cooling physically cannot remove that much heat from that small a space. The liquid cooling market is projected to grow from $6 billion to $16 billion by 2030, and a wave of billion-dollar acquisitions — Vertiv, Schneider Electric, Eaton, Daikin — is reshaping the supply chain.
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