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Nvidia patents data center cooling that skips central chillers

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Patent drawing from the official filing.

Nvidia describes a cooling system for data centers that uses separate liquid loops to handle different parts of a server. One loop cools high-power components by moving coolant directly from the server to a heat exchanger outside the building, bypassing traditional central cooling units.

Why it mattersThis approach could help data centers manage heat more efficiently by targeting specific hot components without relying on a single, complex central cooling system.

In the filing’s own words

A system includes a first cooling loop to cool one or more first components of a server and exchange first heat with an ambient environment via a first heat exchanger. The first cooling loop can exchange heat directly with the ambient environment without a cooling distribution unit.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A system comprising: a first cooling loop to cool one or more first components of a server of a datacenter containing a plurality of servers, wherein the one or more first components have a first power density, wherein the first cooling loop comprises a first heat exchanger disposed outside of the datacenter and at least two manifolds to distribute a coolant to a subset of the plurality of servers supported in a datacenter rack, wherein the at least two manifolds are disposed on a same side of the datacenter rack; and a second cooling loop to cool one or more second components of the server, wherein the one or more second components have a second power density that is lower than the first power density, wherein the first cooling loop flows first coolant from a first manifold of the at least two manifolds and into the server in a first direction at a first side wall of the server at a first horizontal plane and out of the server in the first direction at a second side wall of the server opposite the first side wall at the first horizontal plane to a second manifold of the at least two manifolds, and wherein the second cooling loop flows second coolant into the server in the first direction at the first side wall at a second horizontal plane different from the first horizontal plane and out of the server in the first direction at the second side wall at the second horizontal plane, wherein the one or more first components are cooled by a series of cold plates associated with the first cooling loop.

Facts

Company
Nvidia (NVIDIA Corporation)
Official title
Data center cooling system using one or more cooling loops
Patent number
US12757358B1
Application number
18085918
Filed
Dec 21, 2022
Granted
Oct 6, 2026
Inventors
4
Claims
20

Classified under

H05K 7/20772 Electricity & electronicsH05K 7/20236 Electricity & electronicsH05K 7/20254 Electricity & electronicsH05K 7/20263 Electricity & electronicsH05K 7/20272 Electricity & electronics

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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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