Jake Roberts

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Cooling Data Center Podcast · Jake Roberts, CCO, Excool: Raised Temperatures, Reduced PUE & the Efficiency Gains Hiding in Plain Sight · 28 Jan 2026 podcast

So you're not having to reinvent the wheel.

You're not having to rip out parts of the building or find space in a yard and run chilled water all over the place.

In Europe, especially, space is such a limiting factor and sound power is such a limiting factor.

But everywhere in the world, especially cost is a limiting factor.

The more time you spend on an installation, the more chilled water pie work you run, the more people you get on site to weld it all up and balance and commission and install control valves and flush the system and everything involved with that.

presents another challenge, presents another hurdle to overcome as part of those retrospective upgrade works.

And, you know, and when you're making a business decision about do we even bother upgrading and you're looking at all these costs and space and sound and technological restrictions, hopefully this solution that we've put together makes that decision to retrospectively upgrade for liquid cooling that little bit easier.

Yeah, I think I think every time I open my mouth, I do.

I don't necessarily have to reassure people.

So it's Birmingham, UK, not Birmingham, Alabama.

But yeah, no, you're right.

There's certainly a level of skepticism for for anything that's that's particularly outside the box in the US is what we found anyway.

You know, there's sort of legacy designs, legacy temperatures.

You know, we've had the opportunity to raise on chip temperatures for a couple of years now.

well probably longer than that and um the adaptation of that in the us is still very limited in in the in our experience you know we're still running at facility water loop temperatures of you know 20 20 degrees celsius or less and we're leaving a lot of efficiency on the table we're leaving a lot of stranded power on the table so what we've tried to do rather than kind of um necessarily

provide a full flexible system there.

We tried to have a bit more of a conversation about design philosophy and kind of what customers can do to get efficiency out of their system and run these systems and use less overall power that they've had allocated for the site for cooling.

just by thinking about the way that the site's laid out.

So, for example, rather than having, you know, a massive chiller plant that's required to run water at 18 degrees Celsius for a fan wall array, when you're running a liquid called data center, you're still going to have some air side cooling, of course.

But if you've got this entire chiller plant running at 18 degree water, just for, say, 20, 30 percent of the load,

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