Rather than wax on about all the many things that impacted our industry this year and will shape it going into 2023, let’s focus on a big one: the shrinking availability of water.

ARPA-E's Cooling Operations Optimized for Leaps in Energy, Reliability, and Carbon Hyperefficiency for Information Processing Systems (COOLERCHIPS) funding program aims to develop highly efficient and reliable cooling systems that will enable a new class of efficient power-dense computational systems, data centers, and modular systems. 

Mission critical data center operations typically require significant amounts of water and energy for cooling, and hyperscale server rack power density is expected to double as soon as 2023.

The primary sources of energy consumption in most data centers are server operations and cooling. Much of the energy usage comes from large industrial equipment, such as pumps, chillers, and cooling towers.