- Published on March 22, 2025
- In Global Tech
‘Most Data Centres Are Not Ready for Liquid Cooling’, says Oracle Exec on NVIDIA Blackwell
Built on the Blackwell architecture introduced last year, Blackwell Ultra features the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 rack-scale solution and the NVIDIA HGX™ B300 NVL16 system
- By Siddharth Jindal
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is bringing NVIDIA’s Blackwell Ultra GPUs to its cloud platform, a move announced at the GTC 2025 AI conference. While this expands OCI’s capabilities, it also demands new infrastructure solutions, such as implementing liquid cooling in its data centres. But it comes with its own challenges.
“Most data centres are not ready for liquid cooling,” said Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), in an exclusive interview with AIM, acknowledging the complexity of managing the heat produced by the new generation of GPUs.
He added that cloud providers must choose between passive or active cooling, full-loop systems, or sidecar approaches to integrate liquid cooling effectively. Batta further noted that while server
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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