{"id":215905,"date":"2025-06-14T05:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T10:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/evaporative-cooling-tech-could-curb-data-centers-rising-energy-demands"},"modified":"2025-06-14T05:16:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T10:16:56","slug":"evaporative-cooling-tech-could-curb-data-centers-rising-energy-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/evaporative-cooling-tech-could-curb-data-centers-rising-energy-demands","title":{"rendered":"Evaporative cooling tech could curb data centers\u2019 rising energy demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/evaporative-cooling-tech-could-curb-data-centers-rising-energy-demands.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new cooling technology that could significantly improve the energy efficiency of data centers and high-powered electronics. The technology features a specially engineered fiber membrane that passively removes heat through evaporation. It offers a promising alternative to traditional cooling systems like fans, heat sinks and liquid pumps. It could also reduce the water use associated with many current cooling systems.<\/p>\n<p>The advance is detailed in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2542435125001564\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> on June 13 in the journal <i>Joule<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/artificial+intelligence\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) and cloud computing continue to expand, the demand for data processing\u2014and the heat it generates\u2014is skyrocketing. Currently, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/cooling\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cooling<\/a> accounts for up to 40% of a data center\u2019s total energy use. If trends continue, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/global+energy+use\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">global energy use<\/a> for cooling could more than double by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new cooling technology that could significantly improve the energy efficiency of data centers and high-powered electronics. The technology features a specially engineered fiber membrane that passively removes heat through evaporation. It offers a promising alternative to traditional cooling systems like fans, heat sinks and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}