The Future of Liquid Cooling

Few people know liquid cooling as well as Rich Whitmore. He is the CEO of Motivair by Schneider Electric, which has cooled the world's most powerful supercomputers. After years of working with the HPC and data center communities, Motivair was acquired last year by global equipment giant Schneider Electric to prepare for surging adoption of liquid cooling for AI workloads.      The rise of AI and extreme rack density was a key focus at the recent Schneider Electirc Innovation Summit in Buffalo, N.Y., where I sat down with Rich for a discussion of where liquid cooling has been and where it's going from here. Here's a guide to our discussion with Rich Whitmore: 00:00 - The Trajectory of Liquid Cooling 02:00 - Motivair's History and Rich Whitmore's Data Center Journey 03:45 - The Rise of High-Density Cooling 06:20 - The Motivair "Cooling Door" 08:45 - The Latest Trends in Coolant DIstribution Units (CDUs) 12:45 - CDU Sizing in the Hyperscale Age  15:35 - Managing Cooling for Dynamic AI Workloads 17:10 - The Role of Software in Holistic Cooling 20:35 - Grappling With the Megawatt Rack 22:15 - The Road Ahead - What's Next for Motivair by Schneider? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ At Data Center Richness we demystify technology and explain why data centers matter, and what comes next for the Internet, cloud computing and AI. Host Rich Miller is a journalist and analyst who has been covering the data center sector for 25 years. Subscribe to our channel for more insights: https://www.youtube.com/@DataCenterRichness?sub_confirmation=1 NOW ON SUBSTACK! Check out the Data Center Richness Substack:  https://datacenterrichness.substack.com/  On the Web: Data Center Richness https://datacenterpodcast.com/ LINKS FROM THIS SHOW Motivair by Schneider https://www.motivaircorp.com/ Rich Whitmore on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-whitmore-2167284/ Rich Miller on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/datacenterfrontier/   RELATED VIDEOS: Inside Schneider's Liquid Cooling Push With Motivair https://youtu.be/_uPj295skyQ?si=HmuAYGHCanJ69w-a  Liquid Cooling Has Finally Arrived https://youtu.be/sZM6MZBOeho?si=HrDgXB345zn51-XL A Closer Look at Two-Phase Liquid Cooling https://youtu.be/w_Us94JgYzc?si=wMd1TUS7bMJjqjew All video by Data Center Richness. Supplemental music via Epidemic Sound https://share.epidemicsound.com/60o8qx