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Cooling decisions are too often made in isolation without considerations of the wider impacts on hardware, software, and even the grid. In this session, we take a systems-level view, showing how cooling choices ripple from chip to server to sustainability metrics like energy, carbon, and water. Drawing from recent collaborative work, we’ll explore how Life Cycle Assessment can help teams make informed decisions about cooling strategies without promoting one solution over another. This episode will discuss: 

• How cooling affects systems holistically from chips and servers to grid-level sustainability
• How Life Cycle Assessment can inform better, data-driven technology choices
• Why industry alignment on shared baselines is essential and how open tools can help