DESIGN & BUILD
The AI revolution is reshaping the data centre industry at breakneck speed, forcing operators to abandon decades-old cooling paradigms and embrace technologies that bring unprecedented complexity and risk – but also transformative opportunities.
As power densities soar from 10 kilowatts to a projected one megawatt per rack, the industry finds itself navigating what insiders describe as chaotic territory – a‘ Wild West’ where established best practices struggle to keep pace with innovation.
Rob Lowe, Director RD & E – Global High Tech at Ecolab, has spent nearly 20 years in water innovation, with the past six years specifically focused on data centres. His perspective offers a unique vantage point on an industry in the midst of dramatic transformation.
“ Everybody says it’ s the‘ Wild West’ in AI right now, because there’ s not only the speed of change but everybody is trying to figure out the best practice at the same time,” he explains.
Against this backdrop of uncertainty, Ecolab is establishing order and empowering its customers through collaborative standards development, advanced monitoring technologies and the application of more than a century’ s worth of water expertise to cutting-edge challenges.
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