Connect | London // Debate: Efficiency vs. excess - How much cooling do we actually need?
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- Main Stage - Connect Show Floor | Mezzanine Level
- Data Center Cooling
- Management & Operations
- Open Session
Speakers
Ozgur Duzgunoglu
Head of Engineering, Telehouse
Jon Summers
Research Lead - Data Centers, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Mohammad Salehi
Director Of Design Engineering - EU, Prime Data Centers
Christiaan Naude
Design & Engineering Lead EMEA, Vaultica Data Centers
Senior Director of Sales EMEA & APAC, Munters
Digital Portfolio Lead, DCD
Europe’s cooling approach is being stress tested by high‑density workloads. Temperature bands, oversized plants, and legacy risk culture have shaped designs for years, but modern hardware, advanced adiabatic systems, and new fluid options are challenging those assumptions. As densities rise and efficiency becomes a core design driver, the question is whether current cooling stacks are engineered for efficient service delivery, or simply inherited from a different era.
This session will explore:
- Can operators safely widen temperature bands and reduce oversizing without compromising uptime
- Which cooling technologies offer the most direct path to efficiency in high‑density environments
- How hybrid architectures and fluid selection reshape thermal strategy
- How far operators can push efficiency before risk tolerance becomes the limiting factor