Schneider says hotter coolant can make AI datacenters less thirsty

A datacenter's cooling architecture can have a decisive effect on its water and energy use, according to Schneider Electric, which argues that operators should evaluate it early in the design process. In a white paper published today, the energy management specialist compares four modeled 100 MW datacenter designs, ranging from traditional air cooling to optimized liquid-cooling systems. The paper, "Water Usage at AI Scale: Insights from a 100 MW Comparative Analysis," concludes that moving from