Why scalability matters in CDU design
This session took place on August 19, 2025
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Why scalability matters in CDU design
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In the not-too-distant future, traditional CDUs may force operators into a corner, either overinvest in oversized systems today, or risk hitting thermal limits tomorrow. But modern facilities demand smarter, more adaptive solutions, ones that align with “pay-as-you-grow” deployment models. Scalable CDUs offer modular capacity expansion, flexible coolant compatibility, and seamless integration with direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems. Join this episode to explore why scalability has become the defining principle of next-gen CDU (Coolant Distribution Unit) design. Examine how using modular CDU platforms can:
- Align capital expenditures with actual capacity expansion
- Build thermal headroom for AI-ready workloads
- Accelerate time-to-deployment
- Speakers
- Kat Sullivan , DatacenterDynamics and SDxCentral
- Kevin Roof , LiquidStack
- Trevor Francis , Scale Data Centers
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- LiquidStack