Earlier this year, Supermicro announced multiple improvements to its Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC) portfolio. As processing and accelerator technology advances, the demand for superior power and cooling increases. For enterprise data centers embracing AI, the use of air cooling can quickly become unsustainable, necessitating the need to consider direct liquid cooling in the near term.

Key Highlights

44% of organizations expected to increase the number of data center facilities they own, operate, and manage over the next five years.¹

66% of organizations expected to increase their number of data center facilities identified new AI initiatives as a top rationale.

78% of organizations agreed that they prefer to run AI applications on premises.²

^1. Source: Enterprise Strategy Group Research Report, Private AI, Virtualization, and Cloud: Transforming the Future of Infrastructure Modernization, July 2025. All data in this brief is from this research report unless otherwise stated.

^2. Source: Enterprise Strategy Group Research Report, Cloud Application Deployment and Migration Decision-making, August 2024.