Data Center Infrastructure Podcast

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  From Bitcoin Chicken Coops to Billion Dollar AI Data Centers 17.08.2026 45λ

  Lance and Eric welcome their first guest, Josh Bennett, COO of Data Airflow, fresh off a three week road trip through four data center sites in upstate New York, Kentucky, and the Permian Basin. Josh shares his path from a warehouse job at 17, no college, to running commissioning operations on billion dollar builds, and explains the least understood job in the industry. His teams try to break data centers on purpose, with load banks and test scripts, proving every backup system works before the servers arrive. From the road, the guys cover the half gigawatt AI campus rising where an aluminum smelter died 15 years ago, the cleanup nobody else would have done, the Bitcoin mining chicken coop days the industry grew out of, a West Texas town of 900 transformed by its tax base, and the closed loop water misconception almost everyone gets wrong. Plus the Wyoming fill and flush story that became a cautionary tale for the whole industry, and why the talent shortage in the trades may be a bigger constraint than power.If you use your phone, you use a data center. Get to know what's good and what's bad.More at https://dcipodcast.com
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  From Dirt to Data: Why Cooling Decides Who Wins the AI Race 10.08.2026 24λ

  Somewhere in America, a piece of dirt is about to become a data center. Eric Sonner (Data Airflow) and Lance Teel (Atlas Energy) kick off the Data Center Infrastructure Podcast with the part of the story nobody tells, the cooling, power, and mechanical systems that stand between raw land and racks of live compute. Eric explains how his team sizes cooling for a 200 megawatt building the size of two Costcos, why closed loop systems work like the radiator in your car, and how a brackish water project in West Texas turned a better PUE into 15 years of added compute value. Lance covers the power crunch, secured genset capacity, and why the industry has moved from a server shortage to a power shortage to a fight for public trust. They also get into thermal storage tanks, chiller lead times stretching past a year, the difference between AI factory and enterprise cloud redundancy, and why the water math on a modern data center looks more like a McDonald's than a reservoir. The Data Center Infrastructure Podcast is brought to you by Data Airflow, mechanical engineering, procurement, and commissioning for hyperscale AI and HPC data centers. New episodes every Monday.Listen to wherever you get your podcastsAvailable now on YouTube - Search "Data Center Infrastructure Podcast"