data center

What “Basics” Actually Means Right Now

MondayLive! is spending May unpacking what foundational readiness looks like in an era of accelerating change. Early sessions asked each participant what “basic” meant to

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

What “Basics” Actually Means Right Now

MondayLive! is spending May unpacking what foundational readiness looks like in an era of accelerating change. Early sessions asked each participant what “basic” meant to

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