Robert Ussher

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856 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 12 Aug

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Cooling Data Center Podcast · Clifford Federspiel, Vigilent: Self-Driving Cooling, Predictive Control & Why Fixed Set Points Are Costing You More Than You Think · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

It's just a culmination of things like, you know, two or three things happening in a short sequence of time that leaves somebody in a very bad way.

That's right.

Yeah.

I hate to call it evenware.

You're preaching to the choir here in more ways than one, because I can tell you that that's exactly the problem with even wear.

That's the problem with trying to save runtime people.

And it's, it comes, it's driven from a maintenance philosophy and it's the maintenance people who are the most, shall we say, objective when it comes to even wear.

Yes.

But again, as I said, usually the times I'm thinking of, because I'm on the same, I'm in the same ballpark as you here, absolutely 100%.

But the times that happens are because you're leaving large capital equipment like chillers, compressors to sit idle.

for such a period of time that when you do go to switch over then you're running the risk that you know you flattened the ball bearings or you've left something carrying the weight of something or you haven't actually you you you've ended up with some door to an injection system or something like that so that's probably what drives the whole kind of need or people's initial thinking to go well okay rather than firing something up for five minutes every week we'll actually

run it, run it for 50% of the week on one and run for 50% of the week on the other.

And now in mission, in mission critical, where we're on N plus two, it just magnifies the problem, but I'm on your, I'm, I'm, I'm definitely team cliff on that one.

Uh, you know, I've seen that I've, I've seen that happen in my, my, myself in a, in a huge number of issues.

Yeah.

So what I really like, uh, about the way that you address this issue is you're taking a very complex idea.

And we've spoken about it very, very simply.

And I really liked that because I'm not really too into, um, getting involved at the bits, the bytes talking about algorithms, all that kind of carry on, because I just don't feel that it resonates with the book, with the large majority of people who work around the cooling and data centers.

I think what they want to know are exactly the way you paraphrase this.

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