If this is the true reason Intel got 1.7 million, then they should not have gotten a dime.
[quote] The x86 giant scored that cash under the DoE's COOLERCHIPS initiative, which aims to encourage tech that reduces the amount of power expended on datacenter cooling to less than five percent of the energy expended on IT itself. [/quote]
They still need the same amount of cooling. They just focused the cooling to the liquid.