DVL Power Hour Podcast

This episode of the DVL Power Hour podcast is made up of select audio clips from an in-person event that took place in Denver, CO, on June 11, 2024, as part of Vertiv’s AI Solutions Innovative Roadshow. The speakers you’ll hear showcased are all data center professionals who work for Vertiv, each with more than two decades of experience dealing with the complex challenges of this landscape. 

You’ll be hearing from Matt Zieg, Vice President of Global Strategic Accounts, David Toralez, Technical Sales Manager, and Jim Greene, Director of AC Power Technical Sales.

As power grids around the country continue to be stressed, it’s time for infrastructure teams to consider new methodologies to confidently energize their facilities. Picture a future where electricity isn't just distributed from centralized grids but generated and managed locally. Welcome to the world of microgrids, battery energy storage systems, and electronic isolation and controls. We'll be joined by our own  Alexander D'Angelo, Power Systems Sales Engineers out of our Salt Lake City office. 

Join us, as we dive into, not just the growing demand of alternative energy strategies, but details of: 

• The evolution of microgrids and how we’ve arrived at this current state,
• The impacts microgrids have on power distribution and consumption,
• The basics of engineering microgrids, 
• Tangible benefits for facilities and their operations, and
• How microgrids WILL help the national energy issue by providing sustainable successes.

If you’re designing a data center, this means you’re going to have more than your fair share of variables and challenges to juggle. For starters, an increasing need to accommodate Artificial Intelligence (and other High Performance Compute applications) while also meeting efficiency goals, as well as a host of new challenges that come from construction advancing into urban spaces. No one understands these challenges more than a professional who designs data centers every day. 

Join us, as we sit down with Joy Hughes, Design Manager at Gensler. Hughes, who has more than 23 years of experience and serves as the Executive Director of 7x24's Rocky Mountain Chapter, is her firm’s Critical Facilities Leader.

We’ll be discussing: 

•How the world of data center design has changed in the last two decades
•Whether or not communities benefit from mixed-use data centers
•The impacts of AI on the foundation of data center design
•What utilizing waste heat from data centers looks like
•What decisions really impact and reduce carbon costs

Today, data center operators are preparing for heat densities that demand 20x the capacity of what they were just a few years ago. With this type of massive increase becoming the norm, you’d be remiss if you didn’t question what technology will effectively and efficiently cool your critical operations in the near future.

In this DVL Power Hour webinar, we’ll be joined by Dr. Richard Bonner of Accelsius, as he helps us explore the world of thermal cooling. Bonner has a PhD in Chemical Engineering and a background in Research and Development, and we’ll tap into his rich experiences of solving complex thermal cooling problems in real-world applications. This is a must-watch webinar if you’re looking to enable higher compute densities, save on operational expenses, and responsibly manage the impacts of these technologies on the environment.  

As digital demands continue to rise, so does the growth of data centers worldwide. With new construction, expansion of facilities, and companies and applications migrating to the cloud, the need for more data center space has never been greater. But, as anyone familiar with logistics and facilities knows, before you can even pick up a shovel, there’s a mountain of legal paperwork to overcome. In this webinar, Jeffrey A. Moerdler, of the Mintz Law Firm in New York City, will join us to discuss the 10 most prevalent contract issues he’s recently seen for data centers, that will continue to be top issues in 2024. We'll cover:

•Data Security and Privacy
•Impacts of New Technologies
•Environmental, Social, and Governance
•Lease Ownership
•And more.

Moerdler is the head of the Real Estate and Communications practices in New York. During the past 30+ years, he has developed a unique specialty practice with the comingling of real estate, technology, communications, and energy issues. He has widespread experience representing landlords, tenants, and communications service providers in the leasing, purchase, sale, and financing of data centers and switch facilities, colocation facilities, and fiber-optic transactions, as well as the wiring of buildings for broadband communications access.

Ensuring your data center operates without any issues takes a team of vastly experienced leaders who know to prioritize efficiency and safety. In this webinar, we’ll be joined by EdgeCore Data Centers’ team of operations leaders, led by Therese Kerfoot, SVP Operations, as they discuss experiences from Silicon Valley to Ashburn, Virginia. Also on the agenda are their commitments to safety, sustainability, community, compliance, and governance.   

This EdgeCore panel will include: 

•Therese Kerfoot, SVP Operations
•Harrison Stoll, VP Operations
•Matt Silvers, VP Operations Programs
•Sarah Kasper, Sr. Director, Environmental Health & Safety

In this DVL Power Hour, we sit down with Jack Pouchet of Natron Energy to discuss best practices for defining efficiency and sustainability goals, aligning the organization for success, implementing short-and-long term action plans, and measuring across initiatives to understand the successes, learning opportunities, and overall impacts of your sustainability initiatives.

“Efficiency” and “sustainability” are only growing more relevant, (if that is even possible). The terms will have a huge long-term impact on the world for many years to come, even beyond the landscape of critical infrastructure. 

Ever since 2006, DVL Group has been an employee owned company, and since then, our status as an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) has been a large part of our identity. With October being National Employee Ownership Month, the DVL Power Hour is thrilled to celebrate by hosting our first webinar dedicated to employee ownership.

We’re excited to welcome Dani Green and Kate Johnson, two employee owners from another ESOP company called ProAct. They'll discuss both the tangible and intangible benefits of being an employee owned company, but also the power it gives its owners to better serve their customers, their community, and each other.

ProAct, which is a fully integrated pharmacy benefits management company, was recently named the 2023 Company of the Year by the NY/NJ Chapter of the ESOP Association. In addition, Green was awarded the honor of 2023 Employee Owner of the Year, due to the large part she plays in hosting their vlog, “Sweet + Salty”, Green hits the road with different guests to visit other employee owned companies in the northeast section of the United States. And it is through this video blog that they have been successful in profiling not only their own company’s amazing journeys and stories, but those of others in the employee owned community.

From natural disasters to your "run-of-the-mill" power outages, commercial and industrial facilities face challenges of many types that threaten the stability of their operations.  Luckily, technology continues to evolve providing answers to the big question of "how can I keep my power on in these trying times?"  Including the Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) from Generac Industrial Power.  

Join us for this webinar as we cover the ways in which the BESS is able to provide savings in Costs and Energy, added resilience to your critical infrastructure, and enable operational strategies that include carbon reductions. 

From its original inception as an “Apparatus for Maintaining An Unfailing and Uninterrupted Supply of Electrical Energy”, as the actual 1934 patent refers to it, the evolution of what is now the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), continues to this day. This equipment is more than just back-up power and surge protection. It has become an important variable in the critical infrastructure equation that provides business continuity and operational efficiencies. 

Join us for this webinar as we sit down with the Vertiv UPS Product Team. We’ll learn all about how to best implement this equipment in your facility, as we cover: 

•   Customer challenges driving UPS product development 
•  Product Categories: Online Double Conversion, Line-Interactive, and Standby
•  Battery Options: VRLA vs. Lithium-Ion
•  UPS Applications and the best fit
•  A Review of the full line of Vertiv UPS Portfolio