AI-driven densification is transforming thermal management from a relatively straightforward engineering challenge into a complex system-wide optimization exercise. As operators deploy increasingly dense infrastructure, cooling is no longer simply a question of removing heat. Instead, every decision across the thermal chain has implications for efficiency, flexibility and future scalability.
Before AI and densification, everybody who was working in the data center business was considering a similar density per rack. With AI, densities are moving from 10, 15 kilowatts to 100, 200 kilowatts and toward one megawatt per data center
Maurizio Frizziero, Vertiv
In this DCD>Talks episode, Maurizio Frizziero, vice president of chilled water solutions at Vertiv, explains why AI is forcing operators to rethink how cooling infrastructure is designed, operated and optimized.
From deployment to optimization
