Q3 Executive Roundtable Recap

For our Q3 2025 Executive Roundtable, Data Center Frontier gathered three seasoned industry leaders to unpack some of the most urgent challenges and opportunities facing the data center industry, including:

• Thermal Risk at AI Scale:  As AI workloads dominate new data center builds, what are the most critical thermal or water-related risks operators must solve at scale, and how are your solutions evolving to meet that challenge?
• CapEx vs. OpEx in the AI Era:  Striking the balance between urgent build timelines and long-term efficiency in thermal and water systems.
• The Integration Imperative:  How the convergence of thermal, water, and power systems is breaking down old silos — and reshaping organizational strategies.

Here is the full question and answer session, organized by topic:

• Executive Roundtable: Cooling, Costs, and Integration in the AI Data Center Era
• Executive Roundtable: CapEx vs. OpEx in the AI Era - Balancing the Rush to Build with Long-Term Efficiency
• Executive Roundtable: The Integration Imperative

Here are links to the individual Q&A summaries for each of our panelists:

• Data Center Intelligence: Brandon Peterson, SVP of Business Development, CoolIT Systems
• Data Center Intelligence: Mukul Girotra, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global High-Tech Division, Ecolab
• Data Center Intelligence: Becky Wacker, Vice President – Data Center Solutions, Trane