Nvidia staffer called Microsoft's cooling system for Blackwell GPUs 'wasteful,' internal email shows

Nvidia staffer called Microsoft's cooling system for Blackwell GPUs 'wasteful,' internal email shows

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.Nordin Catic/Getty Images for The Cambridge UnionAn Nvidia staffer said Microsoft's cooling approach for a Blackwell deployment seemed "wasteful."The setup also offered "a lot of flexibility and fault tolerance," per an internal email.Microsoft said its system promotes efficient heat dissipation and optimizes power delivery.As Nvidia works to install some of its newest chips in Microsoft data centers, an employee at the G…

Inside Nvidia’s Blackwell Rollout at Microsoft: Internal Email Flags “Wasteful” Cooling as AI Data Center Demands Surge

As Nvidia races to deploy its most powerful GPUs into Microsoft’s global data-center network, an internal note from early fall shows that the rollout hasn’t been entirely seamless. In the email, an Nvidia Infrastructure Specialists (NVIS) team member questioned whether Microsoft’s cooling strategy at one facility was “wasteful,” underscoring the mounting resource pressures tied to […] The post Inside Nvidia’s Blackwell Rollout at Microsoft: Inte…