Intelligence Update
Direct liquid cooling bubbles to the surface
Conditions will soon be ripe for widespread use of direct liquid cooling (DLC) — a collection of techniques that uses fluid to remove heat from IT electronics instead of air — and it may even become essential.
Currently, air cooling is still dominant with DLC remaining a niche option — around 85% of enterprise IT operations do not use it at all, according to Uptime Institute Intelligence’s recent Direct Liquid Cooling Survey of nearly 200 enterprises. About 7% of respondents to our survey report some application of DLC, such as in mainframes or a few racks, and this leaves only 9% that use DLC in more substantial ways.
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