The Ground Truth | Decarbonising Data Centres
After a good first series, we're back with our second one.
Data centres have become the thing everyone is talking about. Founders, funds, policy rooms, all of it. Demand has climbed sharply and the buildout is moving at a pace the grid was not planned around.
This edition, we're looking at cooling and compute, and hearing from founders building in this space.
Some of what we want to get into:
Cooling at higher rack densities, and where air stops being viable and liquid becomes the only sensible answer despite everything that makes it harder to retrofit.
Water as a competing scarcity, and how operators are thinking about the trade-off between water drawn and power consumed when both are constrained in the same geography.
Compute efficiency as a decarbonisation lever in its own right, which tends to get less attention than supply-side conversations but moves the same number.
Why this sector still runs on incumbents, given long procurement cycles and conservative buyers, and what it actually takes to sell something new into a room where the cost of being wrong is high.
Speakers will be announced closer to the date. The room is intentionally small and limited to founders and operators working directly in the space, so registrations are reviewed and we will confirm your spot over email.
If you're a founder or an operator working in this space, we would love to have you in the room.