AWS integrates liquid cooling and simplifies electrical distribution to lower data center power consumption [Video]

Amazon Web Services Inc. said today at its annual re:Invent conference that it’s making some major changes to its cloud computing infrastructure. Among other things, it’s introducing a new liquid cooling system and simplifying the way electricity is distributed throughout its facilities.

The cloud computing giant said the updates help to make its infrastructure services four times more efficient than typical on-premises environments, positioning it to handle the increased computing requirements of next-generation artificial intelligence workloads.

Not only are its data centers more efficient, but they can also help to reduce the carbon footprint associated with AI and other computing workloads by up to 99%, the company claimed.

The biggest change is that AWS is starting to roll out a new liquid cooling system for its AI servers and some other high-performance systems, including those powered by its homemade Trainium chips and Nvidia’s powerful graphics processing units.

Specifically, AWS said its new Trainium2 chips and Nvidia’s rack-scale AI supercomputing chip, the …