The data center landscape is changing fast, as AI drives innovation in both energy and cooling. In a industry dominated by big companies and big requirements, it's a tricky time for data center startups.

Yuval Bachar is the founder of ECL, a startup that set out to pioneer hydrogen-powered data centers. With the arrival of ChatGPT and the AI data center boom, ECL has changed along with the industry.

Today on the Data Center Richness podcast, Yuval is here to share how ECL has moved to the cutting-edge of AI, deploying the very latest NVIDIA high-density racks in a hydrogen-powered, liquid-cooled data center. It's a story that reinforces the importance of an engineering mindset, and always being ready to innovate.

Let's get started ….

CHAPTERS GO HERE

00:00 - How data center startups navigate in an era of big, fast change

01:45 - Meet Yuval Bachar and learn about his "Data Center Journey"

09:30 - Managing Hydrogen-Powered Liquid-Cooled NVIDIA Racks

15:35 - Building Out the Executive Team at ECL

18:00 - Growth Opportunities in Texas with Natural Gas and Hydrogen

22:00 - The Shape of Inference and the Role of Data Centers

28:15 - The Evolution of Modular Data Center Design

31:40 - Cooling: How Dense Can We Go?

36:25 - The Road Ahead

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ECL Web Site
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Yuval Bachar on LinkedIn
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AI is changing the way we design and build data centers. Meanwhile, cloud computing and enterprise companies continue to need lots of IT capacity.

This creates a challenge for the teams that design data centers, who must navigate rapid change amid tensions between workloads and technologies. AI or cloud? Air-cooled or liquid-cooled?

This is Sara Martin's world. Sara is an Associate Principal at HED, an integrated design end engineering firm that works with many data center clients. On today's podcast Sara provides an inside look at how the rise of AI is creating new challenges, and how leading data centers are using design to build for the future in a period of big fast change.

Here's an overview of the conversation with Data Center Richness host Rich Miller and Sara Martin of HED:

00:00 - Why AI Challenges the Status Quo in Design

01:15 - Sara Martin shares her Data Center Journey, and what HED does.

05:10 - The AI Transition and Modular Designs

10:00 - Hybrid Cooling in Multi-Tenant Data Centers

14:45 - The Pace of Change as a Design Challenge

21:20 - Data Center Water Usage and Community Pushback

27:00 - Trends in Closed-Loop vs. Evaporative Cooling

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The Internet is a network of networks. And it's the connections between these networks that can transform a local business into a global enterprise. From the early days of the Internet, Equinix has been one of the primary places where these connections happen.

Equinix has made nearly half a million interconnections between the 10,000 companies using its 270 data centers around the world, making it a key player in the growth of colocation services and cloud computing.

How is Equinix positioned for the AI boom? To find out, we sat down with DD Dasgupta, the Vice President of Product Marketing at Equinix. DD shared his take on the power of ecosystems in the AI economy, the future of inference, and how Equinix is helping enterprise customers chart their way through the AI landscape.

Here's an overview of the conference between Data Center Richness host Rich Miller and DD Dasgupta of Equinix.

00:00 - Intro to DD Dasgupta and his Data Center Journey

02:45 - Overview of Equinix and its global data center ecosystem

04:00 - The AI Opportunity for Equinix and "Equinix 3.0"

07:25 - How Enterprise Customers are Using AI

12:55 - The Ecosystem Outlook - Which Verticals Are Using AI Most?

16:15 - The Equinix Take on Where Inference Will Live

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