Keynote: Innovating for Product Sustainability – Making Data Centers Greener

Aravind Padmanabhan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, nVent.

Electrification and digitalization are bringing exciting opportunities for sustainable product design across a wide variety of industries, including the fast-growing world of data centers supporting the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution.

A key innovation for data center sustainability is the liquid cooling platform and family of products. Liquid cooling’s advantage comes from its higher heat capacity and density compared to air, making it a good choice for cooling advanced AI chips that generate extreme amounts of heat. This technology also uses advanced control algorithms to ensure liquid is delivered at the optimal temperature and flow rate for the specific thermal load of servers. This enables precise temperature management and system performance improvements. This presentation will share best practices for incorporating sustainability in end-to-end product design for data centers and beyond, using the development of nVent’s liquid cooling platform as a case study on how sustainable products can drive good business outcomes. The presentation will also address key sustainability challenges for the industry as a whole.