The Evolution of Cooling | Brendan Leonard, PowerLoad

After more than 40 years in data centre cooling, Brendan Leonard, CEO of PowerLoad, has seen the technology change roughly every 15 years: raised floors and underfloor air, then hot and cold aisle containment, then fan walls. AI has changed it again. Modern high performance computing runs hotter than air alone can handle, so cooling now goes straight to the source of the heat: direct to chip, cold plates, liquid cooling and immersion. That raises the question at the heart of this video: how do you know it works? PowerLoad generates the heat, simulates the rapid load changes AI brings, and tests the whole cooling chain before it goes live: primary plant, secondary systems, CDUs, sensors, controllers and communications. Speak to the team: https://powerload.net