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Data centers: Innovations to handle increasing heat loads with limited cooling resources
June 08, 2026
Brandon White, Engineer, Experimental Research Electricity demand from data centers in the U.S. could double or even triple by 2028, potentially accounting for roughly 12% of total national electricity consumption. The surge is driven by GPU‑accelerated AI workloads, which generate considerably higher heat fluxes than traditional servers. To keep pace with the...
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Data centers: The rising heat loads of the United States
April 13, 2026
Brandon White, Engineer, Experimental Research Figure1. Wall of modern server racks in data center facility. Photo by Brett Sayles from Pexels A data center is a facility that houses computing, storage, and networking equipment required to run digital services—from cloud platforms to AI workloads. Once thought of as simple “server rooms,”...
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