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Notes on transient flow assurance, two-phase cooling and network design for liquid-cooled AI data centers.
August 5, 2026 · 6 min read
Liquid cooling vs. immersion cooling: two different transient problems
Direct-to-chip and immersion solve the same heat problem with different network topologies, and different failure modes.
Read article →August 4, 2026 · 5 min read
Air cooling vs. liquid cooling: where the limit actually is
Air didn't get worse at cooling chips. Rack power got past what air was ever going to handle.
Read article →July 20, 2026 · 7 min read
Two-phase cooling: lessons from 8 years of multiphase pipelines
The instabilities showing up in two-phase liquid cooling loops have a name in the oil and gas world.
Read article →July 2, 2026 · 5 min read
What happens in the 10 seconds after a CDU pump trips
A pump trip is not a steady-state event. Here is the transient sequence most designs never check.
Read article →June 15, 2026 · 6 min read
Your liquid cooling loop is a flow assurance problem
Facilities teams are treating coolant networks as plumbing. The physics says otherwise.
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