Coolant used to stay behind a locked mechanical room door, several floors and several walls away from anything a CFO would ask about. Direct-to-chip cold plates have changed that arrangement, routing coolant through cold plates attached directly to high-power processors and bringing coolant distribution hardware much closer to the compute components it is responsible for cooling. A pump seal that once represented a conventional facilities leak can now sit within a liquid cooling system serving high value compute hardware, where a leak can reach nearby electrical and IT equipment if containment and detection fail. A slow weep at a fitting can no longer be treated simply as a routine facilities issue when the fitting sits inside a liquid-cooling distribution path serving high density compute equipment. That posture breaks down completely once the fitting sits inside a rack manifold feeding forty or more accelerators running a single training job.