This podcast is bursting with insights into the data center cooling technology industry. Listeners will learn about the considerations that go into placing data centers, such as vulnerability to natural disasters, temperature and humidity, physical security concerns, sourcing bandwidth and power and community opposition. The session covers a variety of cooling technologies that data centers are employing such as cold plate, immersion cooling, water cooling, direct-to-chip cooling and air conditioning. We discuss the impact that AI and quantum computing may have on demand for data centers as well as AI’s sensitivity to reliability. We talk about diverting heat to other applications and destinations. We talk about data center managers’ receptivity to new cooling technologies as well as their procurement criteria.

Guest Speaker:  Nick Hume, Founder & Managing Director of Hume Consulting, which specializes in IT Strategy, Cloud and Data Center Management, Sustainable AI Infrastructure, Process Optimization and Compliance. He has served as Chief Technology Officer and Group CIO at start-up companies in North America, Asia and Europe. He served as Director at Microsoft Azure and leader at Amazon AWS.