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This startup’s metal stacks could help solve AI’s massive heat problem

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What Happened

Alloy Enterprises has developed a new additive manufacturing technique that can improve liquid cooling performance while bringing it to new parts of the server rack.

Our Take

Better cooling is necessary but not interesting. Data centers are running hot because we threw away efficiency for scale. Additive manufacturing for server cooling is the right answer for the wrong question—it patches the symptom (heat) instead of solving the root (energy density).

That said, it works. The startup's doing real engineering and solving a real constraint. It's just not the breakthrough people want to hear about.

What To Do

This helps hyperscalers squeeze more compute density; doesn't change the industry trajectory.

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