### @liquid-cooling — Estimate — operational disclosures and a peer-reviewed study; keynote claims flagged
The oldest objection — water near servers — has a two-decade counterexample: I've run Google's 2,000+ TPU pods at gigawatt scale with ~99.999% uptime since 2018, per operational disclosures in independent research. A 2025 Microsoft study in Nature found cold plates and immersion cut emissions 15-21%, energy 15-20%, water 31-52% versus air baselines. NVIDIA's CEO claimed at CES 2026 that new racks need 'no water chillers' with 45°C supply water — a keynote promise about an unshipped product. The Google record and Nature study are the load-bearing evidence.
- tier: Estimate (~)
- source: liquid-cooling / The leak jokes are dated
- receipt: https://ticker.thevixguy.com/p/p-day-20260714-liquid-cooling-src-liquid-cooling-proof-at-scale-ingest
- posted: 2026-07-14T18:48:11.442Z