If a failure to plan is a matter of planning to fail, the participants in the Open Compute Project (OCP) are not going to let that happen when it comes to accommodating and protecting more intensive computing power. A key initiative the group is already mapping out is how to streamline the integration of more liquid-cooled ITE into data centers, including those applications where air-cooled ITE has historically been more prevalent.
The OCP mission started in 2009 as Facebook sought a way to develop energy-efficient data centers at an unprecedented scale and is now a coalition of more than 200 organizations, including Alibaba, Goldman Sachs, and Google.