Which is at least a nice change from the usual CEO-speak, which resumed shortly thereafter in the post with a description of how lowering datacenter operating costs became server maker's mission.
"Today, we see liquid cooling emerging as a necessity," he added – which is why Supermicro is developing products that deliver it at system, rack, and datacenter scale. "We hope and anticipate that 20 percent or more of worldwide datacenters will need to and will move to liquid cooling in the next several years to efficiently cool datacenters that use the latest AI server technology," he wrote."I see liquid cooling and free air cooling as becoming much more popular in the near future because of the TCO savings and awareness of the environmental challenges we all face.
At 30, Supermicro is a $7.1 billion business capable of producing 4,000 racks full of kit each month, using facilities spread across the US, Taiwan, and the Netherlands. In its most recent earnings release, it outlined its ambition to grow annual revenue to $20 billion with a"5S" strategy that will see it add products related to software, services, switches, storage, and security.