At its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas on Monday, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing service disclosed numerous changes to its computing infrastructure — with a big emphasis on liquid cooling and renewable energy — to make the case that its service is four times more efficient than on-premise computing.
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“AWS’s infrastructure is currently up to 4.1 times more efficient than on-premises infrastructure, and when workloads are optimized on AWS, the associated carbon footprint can be reduced by up to 99%,” the company said in a press release, citing a report it commissioned and posted online.
The innovations unveiled Monday include:
- A simplified electrical distribution system that reduces the number of potential failure points by 20%.
- Liquid-cooled servers that “more efficiently” cool high-density compute chips, along with a cooling system that integrates air and liquid cooling to accommodate processors such as the company’s own Trainium2 chips …