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news Scmp World 2026-04-16

Diamond Coating Boosts Cooling Efficiency for AI Data Centers

Chinese researchers have developed a new diamond-copper composite material to significantly improve the cooling efficiency of artificial intelligence data centers. The material has reportedly been deployed in a computing node in Zhengzhou, Henan province.


Chinese researchers have developed a new diamond-copper material that they say can improve the cooling efficiency of artificial intelligence (AI) data centres by up to 80 per cent. The functional carbon materials team โ€“ from the Ningbo Institute of Industrial Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) โ€“ said the composite material had already been deployed in an AI computing node in Zhengzhou in Henan province, China Science Daily reported. The global computing industryโ€™s pursuit of AI....

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