NVIDIA's AI Chip Rack Faces Overheating Challenges, Media Reports: Key Customers Like Microsoft Scale Back Orders
2025-01-14

According to US media reports, NVIDIA's latest AI chip rack, the Blackwell, has encountered overheating issues, prompting major customers such as Microsoft to scale back their orders for the Blackwell GB200 rack. The overheating problem arises from the excessive heat generated by high-load computations, which surpasses the cooling system's capacity. NVIDIA is actively collaborating with cloud service providers to enhance cooling solutions, but this may result in delivery delays.