China's Power Glut Meets Data Centers; Immersion Cooling Traced to Bitcoin Miners
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-08
A retweet chain discusses China's electricity oversupply and its link to data centers:
- The original post (@jukan05) notes China now has an electricity glut on top of a pork glut, and flags how absurd the sentence "Data centers are the solution to electricity oversupply" sounds.
- @jwt0625 adds historical context: after China banned Bitcoin mining in 2021, miners shifted to immersion cooling because it is far quieter than air cooling, which helped develop the technology and its supply chain; cold-plate development followed, since miners could then be hidden inside heaters.
The takeaway: part of today's data-center cooling tech evolution was accidentally accelerated by the mining industry's forced migration.
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