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Data Center World 2025

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Is DLC worth all the hype?

Raymond Parpart  (Director Data Center Operations & Strategy, University of Chicago)

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Track: Emerging IT & Data Center Technologies

Session Type: Session

Vault Recording: TBD

Audience Level: All Audiences

The industry has been suggesting DLC is the cooling of the future. It will revolutionize Data Center energy efficiency while supporting the dramatic increase and cabinet power demands. In this presentation we will walk through proof-of-concept DLC installation that rapidly moved to production. System performance and operational metrics will be compared showing operations run on side-by-side machines with and without DLC. We will also talk about the technical efforts and expectations implementing DLC both for POC as well long-term strategic deployments.

Takeaway

• System performance expectations of side-by-side systems with/without DLC
• Expectations for selecting and installing DLC in a major University's research Data Center
• Strength/weakness discussion related to DLC