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“ There is a lot of data centre space in operation today that is not set up for liquid cooling. We can’ t just ignore that”
Rob Lowe, Director RD & E – Global High Tech, Ecolab
degradation before it impacts operations or damages equipment.
The company’ s approach acknowledges that while the technologies may be new to data centres, the fundamental challenges are not.
“ The problems that we see will be the same. They’ re just going to manifest in different ways,” Rob suggests.“ There are going to be different ways we need to troubleshoot because of materials of construction, operational conditions, or other operational dynamics. But the fundamentals are still the same.”
Collaborative standards development Recognising that technical solutions alone cannot address industry-wide uncertainty, Ecolab has positioned itself at the centre of collaborative standards development.
The company is working with the Open Compute Project( OCP) and partnering directly with equipment manufacturers to establish best practices.
A recently published white paper co-authored with Nvidia focuses on pre-commissioning procedures – a starting point Rob identifies as offering“ the most value and addressing the most need around how you set these things up”.
138 December 2025