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Comparing the Main Approaches to AI Datacenter Power and Cooling

Four ways to reject heat and three ways to source power solve the same constraint in incompatible ways. Which one wins depends entirely on which limit binds at a given site.

By Brecht Corbeel · September 16, 2026 · 20 min read

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