ARPA-E Launches A $40 Million COOLERCHIPS Program For Advanced Cooling Projects in Data Centers

     Recently, with a funding of $40 million from the Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) of the US Department of Energy, multiple advanced cooling projects for data centers will be launched with the COOLERCHIPS program. The plan aims to develop energy-saving and reliable next-generation cooling technologies for data centers, with the goal of significantly reducing the cooling energy consumption of IT equipment workloads in data centers from the current 30% -40% to 5% of the total energy consumption in the data center.

   The development of liquid cooling solutions aims to find innovative solutions that are superior to current liquid cooling for the soaring density of data center racks and high-power AI computing loads with smaller space, and to reduce the application cost of cooling technology.