The liquid-cooled version of the A 100 will be available from later this year. The video card is being positioned as a way for cloud computing companies to make their facilities more energy efficient. Adding a water block to the component can help data centers reduce their dependence on air- and water-based chillers. The water-cooled A 100 was used in testing to run the same workload as an air-cooled data center while using 30 percent less power. The A 100 is more space-efficient. It occupies a single slot instead of two because of its water block design. In the consumer market, we have already seen companies like EVGA offer graphics cards with built-in water blocks, and companies like EK sell aftermarket units you can install on your existing video card. We are hopeful that today's announcement is a sign that water-cooled GPUs will be pushed into the mainstream. The company is sending out samples of the new A 100 to enterprise customers. The water-cooled version of the H 100 Tensor Core will be introduced next year.
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