Christopher Wellise
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“run at such a high wattage, a high temperature, you would need nearly hurricane-force winds to actually cool them down if you were just using air,”
Christopher Wellise · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-05
Wellise explained in an interview why liquid cooling is needed for high-wattage AI GPUs instead of air cooling.
“Communities are beginning to ask the right questions. They're concerned about water consumption,”
Christopher Wellise · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-05
Wellise noted that communities are increasingly asking questions and expressing concern about data center water consumption.
“There's no sort of silver bullet,”
Christopher Wellise · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-05
Wellise discussed the trade-offs between dry cooling and evaporative cooling methods at data centers.
“We take resource consumption, resource use very seriously.”
Christopher Wellise · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-05
Wellise stated that Equinix takes resource consumption and resource use seriously.
“At some point you need to eject that heat out to the atmosphere. And that's where those trade-offs occur.”
Christopher Wellise · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-05
Wellise explained that heat must eventually be ejected to the atmosphere, creating trade-offs between cooling methods.