KOHLER CO .
Kohler
: Global Power Partner
of manufacturing space to keep up with demand . An aggressive expansion roadmap will see increased overall production capabilities for power products and test capabilities . “ We ' re also going to make it easier for customers to do factory witness testing and access our engineering consultant expertise at our new customer experience centre ,” adds Farney . “ We ' re very excited about this expansion and it shows our commitment to be all in for the data centre sector . Our manufacturing facility in Brest , France continues to grow and we ' re increasing our US presence alongside capabilities to supplement what we do in Asia .”
Trends How will Kohler be reacting to trends across the data centre panorama to meet the needs of its customers ? “ There are some fascinating innovations going on in the data centre field and not necessarily influenced by the fallout from Covid ,” explains Farney . “ The likes of Microsoft , Google , Facebook , Amazon - have robust R & D budgets and teams of PhD level electrical and mechanical engineers working on better ways of doing things because for the Hyperscalers , when you ' re running gigawatts of critical load , small tweaks can make a really big difference . At Microsoft , we would change the ambient temperature in a co-location facility by just a few degrees and see thousands of dollars of savings . Hyperscalers are incentivised by the green dollar , but also by the push for sustainability . Really forward-looking leaders like Christian Maier at Microsoft are experimenting with immersion cooling , for
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