Total Cost of Ownership Model for Liquid Cooled Datacenter

Learn about total cost of ownership modeling for liquid-cooled datacenters in this 21-minute conference presentation from the Open Compute Project. Explore how explosive AI growth is driving rack power density increases of more than 10X, while datacenter infrastructure adapts slowly with air-cooling remaining dominant for the next 5+ years. Discover how industry leaders are pivoting toward Direct to Chip Liquid, Immersion, Hybrid, and other advanced cooling technologies to augment traditional air-cooling at the IT rack level. Examine datacenter-level growth in modular Liquid-to-Air and Liquid-to-Liquid heat exchangers that enable liquid cooling in both air and liquid-cooled facilities. Understand the OCP TCO Workstream's development of an open and transparent TCO tool designed to model and compare CAPEX, OPEX, and CO2 footprint across different power and cooling strategies. See how this tool increases confidence in making informed, fact-based decisions about cooling infrastructure investments. Review the latest capabilities of the OCP TCO tool through a detailed study examining the retrofitting of liquid-cooled AI clusters into existing air-cooled datacenters, including comprehensive analysis of CAPEX and OPEX implications and emerging opportunities in the evolving datacenter cooling landscape.