The next generation of data center platforms from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia will consume 500W – 1000W of power, a slide from a Gigabyte roadmap published by renowned hardware leaker HXL indicates. Cooling these CPUs and GPUs down will require some serious effort, come 2024 – 2025.
Modern datacenter CPUs and GPUs already consume hundreds of Watts of power, which makes their cooling a real challenge for server makers and operators of data centers. But there is an inherent need for performance in artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) spaces, which is why developers of processors are set to offer even higher-performance chips with even higher power consumption in the coming years, according to the slide.
