Advancing Data Center Cooling Innovation East

Memo

Cooling infrastructure has become one of the defining challenges for AI-ready data centers, with cooling now accounting for 40–50% of total facility energy use as GPUs surpass 1,000 W per chip. Across East Coast hubs, hot, humid summers and freeze-protection challenges are accelerating the shift from traditional cooling toward closed-loop chilled water, air-cooled chillers, and direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems. While water constraints are less severe than in the West Coast, growing scrutiny around power consumption, grid capacity, and utility costs is making climate-specific, efficient cooling design essential for scalability and community acceptance. As hyperscalers, colocators, and developers rapidly scale AI infrastructure, mechanical engineering teams face mounting pressure to deliver resilient, energy-efficient cooling within increasingly constrained power, water, and urban environments. Advancing Data Center Cooling Innovation East 2026 is the first and only forum dedicated exclusively to data center mechanical systems across established and emerging Eastern hubs, bringing together 80+ mechanical, thermal and cooling engineers from hyperscalers, colocators, developers, engineering firms and contractors for deep technical learning, peer-to-peer problem-solving, and unmatched networking to deliver efficient, scalable and reliable cooling systems that will set the standard for future of the digital economy across the East Coast. Join this highly interactive event to explore scalable liquid cooling deployment, optimize heat rejection strategies, improve water stewardship, navigate how cooling solutions overcome grid and utility constraints, and future proof cooling architectures for the next generation of AI-ready infrastructure. URLs:Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3634212-2?pid=5569Brochure: https://go.evvnt.com/3634212-3?pid=5569 Prices:Architects, Engineers and Contractors Pricing - 3 Day Pass (Conference + Workshop Day): USD 3197.00,Architects, Engineers and Contractors Pricing - 2 Day Pass (Conference Only): USD 2399.00,Data Center Operators, Hyperscalers, Colocators and Developers Pricing - 3 Day Pass (Conference + Workshop Day): USD 2097.00,Data Center Operators, Hyperscalers, Colocators and Developers Pricing - 2 Day Pass (Conference Only): USD 1499.00,General Admission Pricing - 3 Day Pass (Conference + Workshop Day): USD 5297.00,General Admission Pricing - 2 Day Pass (Conference Only): USD 3799.00 Speakers: Anay Arun, Senior Colocation Mechanical Engineer, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Matthew Haight, Senior Mechanical Subject Matter Expert, CleanArc Data Centers, Maryam Zahedi, Staff Mechanical Engineer, Equinix, Duane Warren, Engineering Director, JLL, Kushal Pandit, Staff Data Center Engineer, LinkedIn, Sahil Deshpande, Software Engineer, Meta, Kevin Shipley, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Microsoft, Jay Gite, Senior Thermal Product Design Engineer, NVIDIA, Rajat Bhagat, Senior Mechanical Engineer and Data Center Design, Arcadis, Bill Kosik, Sector Lead, Mission Critical, HED, Ashim Sanyal, Mission Critical Senior Mechanical Engineer, Highland Associates, Rajendra Vaidya, Director, PCL Construction, David Eisenband, Global Senior Manager, Ramboll, Scott Rahn, Senior Vice President - Industrial Manufacturing, Roeslein and Associates, Stephen Spinazzola, Director, Shumate, Daren Shumate, Principal, Shumate, Todd Czworniak, Technical Manager, Syska Hennessy, Steven Straus, Mechanical Engineer, Tetra Tech, Oscar Gross, Vice President, Mission Critical Solutions, Tetra Tech, Saniya LeBlanc, Data Center Modelling and Simulation, The George Washington University Category: Conferences | Business and Economics | Real Estate and Construction Date and Time: 21st September 2026 at 9:00 am to 23rd September 2026 at 2:30 pm Venue details: Hyatt Regency Dulles, 2300 Dulles Corner Boulevard, Herndon, Virginia, 20171, United States