AWS is also introducing liquid cooling systems to keep the most powerful chips from the likes of Nvidia Corp. running smoothly. Such chips can’t be effectively cooled by fans alone.
Amazon expects to pour about US$75 billion ($101 billion) into capital expenditures this year, much of it for servers, chips and cooling systems that power AWS’s on-demand computing services. The sum also covers the purchase of homegrown chips, including new artificial intelligence products designed to compete with Nvidia. AWS is expected to announce this week at its re:Invent conference that those chips are now available to customers.
