Water cooling for PCs explained: performance gains, costs, noise levels, and whether liquid cooling beats air for gaming, overclocking, and daily use.

Every PC needs some kind of cooling mechanism to transfer heat away from the processor, at which point you'll need to choose between air cooling and liquid cooling. As a PC enthusiast who builds my ...

Using hot water to cool supercomputers? Nvidia and others are doing it. It’s liquid cooling minus the water chillers.

Traditionally, air cooling technologies have been the go-to solution for managing the immense heat generated by data centers, but as data centers grew larger and more powerful, water-cooling systems ...

Among the many problems posed by the rapid proliferation of data centers around the world is the strain on local water supplies. These facilities need plenty of water for cooling the vast arrays of ...

High-density computing workloads like AI training and inference run too hot for traditional air cooling. Companies are increasingly adopting liquid cooling technologies, even in traditional air-cooled ...

Electrification and digitalization are bringing challenges and opportunities for sustainability. Electricity demand is expected to triple by 2050, electric vehicle (EV) and renewables infrastructure ...

With the rise of high-performance computing and the increasing chances of weather-related disaster, keeping data centers cool ...

A surge of 2026 data center cooling announcements, from HRL’s ARPA-E-backed single-phase breakthrough and Johnson Controls’ planned Alloy acquisition to new AI-ready chillers ...