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Designing for Density: Thermal Strategies for AI Data Centers
As AI workloads drive unprecedented thermal management needs, traditional assumptions about data center design are being tested. Higher rack densities introduce new considerations (and new opportunities) for improving efficiency, resilience, and long-term flexibility.
Whether you’re focused on new builds or adapting existing infrastructure, this session will help you better understand how to plan thermal strategies that scale with your growing cooling needs.
Key topics:
- How rising density influences uptime, reliability, and PUE
- Why framing the conversation as “air vs. liquid cooling” misses the bigger picture
- What AI workloads have fundamentally changed but what proven principles still apply
- What operators should plan for today, and what to consider as higher density designs become more concrete
Speakers
Mihir Nandkeolyar
Datacenter Global Business Development Manager Johnson Controls
Mihir Nandkeolyar has been in the HVAC industry and closely supporting the data center thermal management vertical for 12 years. In prior roles, Mihir managed Applications Engineering teams in Pune and York Pennsylvania, and also held a regional sales manager role in northern USA and Canada.
Mihir currently is the manager of technology strategy and business development for the Global Data Center Solutions business unit at Johnson Controls. Mihir holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Ohio State University, and studied Energy Policy and Climate from Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC.