IEEE-CNSV Event: Energy and Thermal Management of IT Systems

Tue, Jan 13 2026, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm PST

https://californiaconsultants.org/event/energy-and-thermal-management-of-it-systems/ 

The latter part of 20th century witnessed the rise of the compute utility made up of large-scale data centers housing densely-packed compute, storage and networking equipment. In the cyber age, data centers became modern day factories requiring megawatts of power for the information technology (IT) equipment, much like the process equipment in a factory of the machine age. Electrical energy supplied to the chips and systems in the data centers turned into multi-megawatts of heat energy which in turn required heat removal means. The active heat removal means also required power.

While many innovative measures have been used for heat removal and energy management in data centers, there is a substantial gap in application of the fundamentals of engineering when compared to the approaches taken by the contributors of the 19th and early 20th century machine age. As an…