This podcast distills the signal from the noise about enterprise IT digital transformation and operations in the era of Agile, DevOps and distributed applications. Interviews feature expert guests in conversation with IT journalism veteran Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer at Informa TechTarget.
Data centers and their resource demands on surrounding communities have become national political news as AI infrastructure grows. Meanwhile, the industry's focus is about to shift again, from training frontier AI models to AI inference, which calls for smaller, more distributed facilities and raises a different set of potential concerns.
Henry Cubillan is senior vice president of Americas Commercial for Kelvion, a manufacturer of cooling and thermal management technology. In this episode, he sheds light on emerging data center cooling approaches that demand less water, along with their trade-offs. He also discusses how the industry should respond to public controversy about AI data centers.
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
New buildouts vs retrofitting existing data center facilities
Evaporative cooling, closed-loop liquid cooling and dry cooling
Striking a balance between data center power and water usage
The outlook for enterprises with growing AI inference workloads
And more!
References:
Data center builders confront public AI backlash
AI data centers can run hot to stay cool: report
A shadow water problem: AI's power demand shifts consumption upstream
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8 Oct 2026
Unstructured data: the missing link in AI context engineering
Komprise has amassed $85 million in funding and multiple patents for its metadatabase, which lends structure to unstructured data. Data processing is increasingly in the spotlight as enterprise AI struggles to reach production.
"It's garbage in, garbage out," according to Krishna Subramanian, COO at Komprise, something more enterprises are realizing as they develop context engineering practices for AI agents. But Subramanian argues that common techniques such as RAG and vectorizing data aren't enough to ensure quality results.
In this episode, we also discuss:
Metadatabases vs distributed data lakehouses
Metadatabases vs knowledge graphs
The art and science of data classification
Why, at Komprise, "we don't believe in 100% automation."
And more!
References:
Context is king as agents evolve, but problems persist
Komprise adds Iceberg for unstructured data management
Atlassian's Secoda acquisition adds data catalog for Rovo AI
ServiceNow digs deeper into data for AI with Data.world buy
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1 Oct 2026
Data centers in the AI era: upheaval and innovation
IT Ops Query caught up with an AI infrastructure development executive from a global cooling and air-conditioning manufacturer at the Yotta 2026 conference in Las Vegas this week, to discuss the wide range of topics generating buzz at the show. Just a few of the fast-paced developments on the minds of data center operators: how to do a better job communicating with communities where new facilities are being built, how to keep up with the insatiable need for AI infrastructure capacity, and rethinking power and cooling designs to improve efficiency.
Featuring: Yong Tan, global vice president, AI infrastructure development, Airsys USA
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
Modular data center approaches for fast buildouts
Integrating "white space" and "gray space" infrastructure more tightly
Two-phase liquid cooling
800 volt direct current
And more!
References:
Report: Anthropic locks in $518B AI infrastructure commitments
Akamai's potential $20B Anthropic deal scales AI beyond GPUs
Power grid operator faces data center stress test
To learn more about AI and IT Operations, check out TechTarget Infrastructure.
To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech.
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