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Additional white papers addressing commissioning practices, operational best practices, and monitoring protocols are in development.“ We’ re working with our customers – customers and the OEMs – to really drive some certainty and get rid of some of the crazy Wild West aspects of the AI data centre space right now,” says Rob.
This collaborative approach has accelerated Ecolab’ s own innovation cycle dramatically.
The company’ s 3D TRASAR programme for direct-to-chip cooling moved from whiteboard concept to commercial deployment in less than 12 months – a timeline enabled by intensive customer engagement.
“ We sketched out the scenarios with a simple proposition:‘ Here’ s everything that we think we might need to have to help us monitor what’ s going on in the glycol loop.’ In less than 12 months, we had a commercial installation of that device,” recounts Rob.
The rapid iteration process involved customers at every design stage, with weekly cycles of feedback and refinement.
“ We didn’ t wait for a complete prototype to be built, and then take it out to a customer site and try it,” explains Rob.“ We had the iterative approach where we said,‘ Here’ s the design, let’ s take a look at it together.’ That was the key. It’ s increasing the expediency, and this comes directly from the collaboration with our customers and the OEMs.”
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