Re:Google's Liquid Cooling
by coliveira on Monday August 25, 2025 @04:48PM
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This is typical for Google: they will reinvent things and say they're the first to do it. Google is typically concerned with costs; there is probably solutions out there for these problems, but they don't want to pay for it. It is cheaper, at their scale, to reinvent things and get it done internally, and then claim they're first.
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Why make up such an absurd grievance to get fake-outraged about? Nowhere in the article does it say that Google claims to have invented liquid cooling. In fact, nowhere does it say they claim any part of this is a new invention.
But the point of this kind of paper is typically not what is new, it's what combination of previously known and novel techniques have been found to work well at massive scale over a timespan of years.