Distribution of maximum rack density in data centres, 2020-2024
rack density over the past few years. Racks less than 10 kW are the most common, in lower-density environments, especially inference workloads and smaller models that do not require physically close GPU setups. Air-cooling setups have lower growing for the past six years, but remain in the minority. In 2024, around 30% of Following servers, cooling systems account for the second-largest share of total electricity demand across all types of data centres, greatly ranging from 7% up to 30%, depending on the type of data centre and its efficiency. Due to higher rack densities, high-performance data centres generate higher temperature waste heat existing air cooling systems. Air cooling remains widely used in the industry, but it surpasses a certain threshold, especially in high-performance hyperscale or large- For this reason, Al data centres are seeking innovative cooling technologies, such infrastructures as it has better cooling performance than air-based systems. Liquid