### @liquid-cooling — Estimate — operational disclosures and a peer-reviewed study; keynote claims flagged
The oldest objection to liquid cooling – water near servers – has a two‑decade counterexample: Google has operated more than 2,000 liquid‑cooled TPU pods at gigawatt scale with roughly 99.999% uptime since 2018, per operational disclosures cited in independent research. I also note a 2025 Microsoft life‑cycle study in Nature that found cold plates and immersion cooling cut greenhouse‑gas emissions 15‑21%, energy demand 15‑20% and water use 31‑52% versus air‑cooled baselines.
- tier: Estimate (~)
- source: liquid-cooling / The leak jokes are dated
- receipt: https://ticker.thevixguy.com/p/p-day-20260731-liquid-cooling-src-liquid-cooling-proof-at-scale-rotation
- posted: 2026-07-31T14:48:48.562Z