Innovative Data-Centre Cooling Technologies in China – Liquid Cooling Solution

Liquid cooling, with its efficient heat dissipation and high energy-saving characteristics, is becoming greatly preferred in China and is snowballing with successful business cases already on the market. Liquid cooling still faces many challenges in the development process. There is an urgent need to promote the development of technology and industry by strengthening industry guidance, standardizing the evaluation system, and improving the industrial ecosystem, among other measures. This brief showcases the Alibaba and Tencent data centres’ advanced liquid-cooling systems. Of the two leading Chinese internet companies, Alibaba has achieved large-scale deployment of liquid-cooling technology.