Microsoft's Microfluidics: Revolutionizing Datacenter Cooling
2025-09-24
Microsoft is developing microfluidics, a revolutionary chip cooling technology, to address the escalating heat challenges in datacenters. Traditional air and cold plate cooling are insufficient for the power demands of future high-performance AI chips. Microfluidics dramatically improves cooling efficiency by directly delivering coolant to the chip surface, reducing energy consumption, and enabling higher server density and advanced 3D chip architectures. This technology not only boosts compute performance but also reduces datacenter energy usage, leading to environmental benefits and aiming to become an industry standard, driving innovation in chip technology.