The article explores how the sci‑fi blockbuster “The Wandering Earth 2” highlights cutting‑edge liquid‑cooling server technology, linking it to the massive AI compute demands of the future, the push for greener data centers, and China’s Sugon innovations that could dramatically cut energy use.
In his Ant Group presentation at the 2022 China Computing Power Conference, He Zhengyu outlined how cloud‑native upgrades, time‑slice scheduling, AI‑driven capacity prediction, and mixed online‑offline deployment have dramatically improved server utilization, cut carbon emissions, and driven open‑source contributions toward sustainable computing.
Alibaba unveiled its industry‑first immersion liquid‑cooled server clusters, achieving a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) close to 1.0, detailing the technology’s design, green‑computing benefits, and the challenges of scaling this revolutionary cooling method for data centers.
Alibaba confirmed that its "Kirin" project is an industry‑first immersion liquid‑cooling server cluster that cools servers with liquid instead of air, achieving a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) close to the theoretical limit of 1.0 and promising significant energy savings for data centers.
