alt Hacker News>Previous liquid-cooled servers were hybrid: GPUs and CPUs got cold plates, but the rest of the system stayed air-cooled, with finned heat sinks designed to shed heat into moving air. In a fully liquid-cooled server, the cooling for these components needed to be completely redesigned to use liquid.
Does that mean the whole server board is running in liquid? If true, how do they do maintenance? Replacing parts must be extremely difficult.
The article implied (but did not seem to ever state) that they simply added liquid cooled cold plates to all the other components that were previously air cooled.
But it did not sound like they were describing a Cray 2 style liquid immersion cooling system.