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Coolant Distribution Units & cold plates

Direct-to-chip liquid cooling hardware for GB200/GB300

CDUs, manifolds and cold plates (Vertiv, Boyd, Cooler Master, CoolIT, Delta) are mandatory for Blackwell/Rubin racks that exceed air-cooling limits; NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 ships liquid-cooled. Quick-disconnect and leak-management supply constraints have become a genuine gating factor for AI rack deployment velocity.

Vendors

Vertiv, Boyd, CoolIT, Delta

Driver

GB200 NVL72 liquid cooling

How it fits the stack

Coolant Distribution Units & cold plates with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.

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Coolant Distribution Units & cold plates in the AI stack. Coolant Distribution Units & cold plates with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.

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