AI Magazine July 2024 | Page 89

LiquidStack : Championing Sustainable Liquid Cooling
LiquidStack : Championing Sustainable Liquid Cooling
LiquidStack ’ s Angela Taylor discusses how its liquid cooling solutions are revolutionising data centre operations and environmental sustainability .
Global Strategy and Marketing Director Angela Taylor is equally as passionate about liquid cooling solutions that benefit business and the environment as the company she works for .
Founded in 2012 , LiquidStack started out as demand rose to cool high performance workloads in crypto . It then pivoted into data centre cooling in 2019 and the rest , they say , is history .
“ We are committed to providing our customers with reliable , high-quality solutions that meet their needs today and in the future ,” she says .
Liquid cooling meets demand , sustainably
LiquidStack is working to combat the challenges that arise with cooling . As demand for high performance compute increases , so does the need for innovative and effective solutions . Its suite of offerings support that need .
The company has scaled up and implemented liquid cooling in data centres as large as 120MW and has a comprehensive range of data centre liquid cooling solutions tailored for high-compute workloads like AI , LLM training and simulations .
“ The data centre industry is experiencing a push-pull dynamic ” Angela explains . “ LLMs and generative AI have immense potential to address some of mankind ’ s toughest challenges . However , these models require a substantial amount of energy .”
As it stands , 40 % of data centres ’ electricity consumption is used for cooling IT equipment . As demand for high performance compute grows , this results in hotter components and a further demand for cooling .
Angela and LiquidStack are firm advocates for liquid cooling thanks to its ability to enable a greater sustainability profile for data centres than is possible with the current air cooling methods .
Trane and LiquidStack : A flourishing partnership
The company works closely with Trane — also an investor in LiquidStack — on both products and services .
“ Our future plans with Trane revolve around scaling ,” Angela adds . “ New product announcements by major GPU makers are necessitating the switch to liquid cooling . Working with Trane , we ’ re making this adoption process easier for our customers .”