Connect | India // Major Panel: Enabling liquid cooling adoption at scale in India
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- DCD Main Stage - Show Floor | Infinity Ballroom | G Level
- Data Center Cooling
- Open Session
Speakers
Kamlesh Harchandani
Chief Development and Construction Officer, India, Digital Edge DC
Head of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Bineet Jha
VP, Technology, National Stock Exchange of India
Director, Wesco Anixter
AI-driven rack densities are accelerating the shift toward liquid cooling across India’s next wave of data centre builds. While the technology is proven globally, deploying it at scale in India presents distinct challenges. High ambient temperatures and humidity in key markets, water stewardship expectations, and evolving environmental scrutiny add operational complexity. At the same time, operators must navigate vendor concentration, extended equipment lead times, limited large-scale validation experience, and skills gaps across commissioning and operations. The question is no longer whether liquid cooling works, but whether the ecosystem is ready to support it reliably across new and existing facilities. This session will explore what must change to enable scalable adoption by addressing:
- What it takes to retrofit existing air-cooled facilities for liquid without compromising uptime
- How to build commissioning and operational capability to manage liquid systems reliably
- How water availability and sustainability expectations will shape where liquid cooling can scale
- How to improve interoperability and move towards standardisation to prevent long-term vendor lock-in as adoption scales