data center

Surfs Up! The Liquid Cooling Mandate The data center industry is standing on the shoreline of a massive tidal shift. For decades, we have relied on the steady, predictable breeze of air cooling to keep our digital engines running. It was a comfortable era where raised floors, CRAC units, and hot-aisle containment were sufficient to tame the heat generated by general-purpose compute. But the wind has died down, and a tsunami is approaching. That tsunami is Artificial Intelligence, and it brings with it a thermal density that air simply cannot carry. We are no longer discussing a "trend" or an "emerging technology." We are facing a hard physical wall. The era of air-cooled facilities for high-performance computing is effectively ending. As we move deep into late 2025 and 2026, operators are realizing that the liquid cooling mandate is not just about changing plumbing; it’s about survival in the age of the AI factory. This isn’t just a facility upgrade—it is a complete reimagining of mission-critical thermal management.

Surfs Up! The Liquid Cooling Mandate

​The data center industry is standing on the shoreline of a massive tidal shift. For decades, we have relied on the steady, predictable breeze of

Software Platform Wars!

Tuesday, February 3, 2026 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM -Software Platform Wars (Room S220) Moderated by Scott Cochrane, President & CEO, Cochrane Supply,featuring: Stephen Holicky,

An angry Facility Manager pointing and yelling at an angry IT Operations manager in a data center.

Unifying the Data Center Cooling Chain

It’s 3:00 AM. A high-priority alert jolts an IT operations manager awake. A rack of mission-critical servers is glowing red on their monitoring dashboard, rapidly

Actors for Buildings

Fifty-five years ago, we chose the wrong path. Small code that could run on small CPUs was recognized as a better path than large, probably

Kubernetes at the Edge

Imagine a hospital where HVAC zones self-adjust during code blues, a campus that reroutes energy during grid emergencies, and high-rises that predict elevator demand before

AI: The Data Center's Double-Edged Sword AI is both the primary driver of unprecedented data center demand and the most critical tool for managing it.

AI: The Data Center’s Double-Edged Sword

The Unstoppable Force and the Immovable Object The digital age is defined by a central paradox: artificial intelligence is simultaneously the primary driver of unprecedented

Surfs Up! The Liquid Cooling Mandate The data center industry is standing on the shoreline of a massive tidal shift. For decades, we have relied on the steady, predictable breeze of air cooling to keep our digital engines running. It was a comfortable era where raised floors, CRAC units, and hot-aisle containment were sufficient to tame the heat generated by general-purpose compute. But the wind has died down, and a tsunami is approaching. That tsunami is Artificial Intelligence, and it brings with it a thermal density that air simply cannot carry. We are no longer discussing a "trend" or an "emerging technology." We are facing a hard physical wall. The era of air-cooled facilities for high-performance computing is effectively ending. As we move deep into late 2025 and 2026, operators are realizing that the liquid cooling mandate is not just about changing plumbing; it’s about survival in the age of the AI factory. This isn’t just a facility upgrade—it is a complete reimagining of mission-critical thermal management.

Surfs Up! The Liquid Cooling Mandate

​The data center industry is standing on the shoreline of a massive tidal shift. For decades, we have relied on the steady, predictable breeze of

Software Platform Wars!

Tuesday, February 3, 2026 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM -Software Platform Wars (Room S220) Moderated by Scott Cochrane, President & CEO, Cochrane Supply,featuring: Stephen Holicky,

An angry Facility Manager pointing and yelling at an angry IT Operations manager in a data center.

Unifying the Data Center Cooling Chain

It’s 3:00 AM. A high-priority alert jolts an IT operations manager awake. A rack of mission-critical servers is glowing red on their monitoring dashboard, rapidly

Actors for Buildings

Fifty-five years ago, we chose the wrong path. Small code that could run on small CPUs was recognized as a better path than large, probably

Kubernetes at the Edge

Imagine a hospital where HVAC zones self-adjust during code blues, a campus that reroutes energy during grid emergencies, and high-rises that predict elevator demand before

AI: The Data Center's Double-Edged Sword AI is both the primary driver of unprecedented data center demand and the most critical tool for managing it.

AI: The Data Center’s Double-Edged Sword

The Unstoppable Force and the Immovable Object The digital age is defined by a central paradox: artificial intelligence is simultaneously the primary driver of unprecedented