DVL Power Hour Podcast

Artificial Intelligence is most valuable at the edge where data can empower productivity and efficiency. From healthcare and manufacturing to enterprise and municipal environments, edge locations are where AI applications become real-time decisions, automation, and human capability. Yet, these environments were never designed for the level of demand they’re currently seeing. Traditionally constrained by space, limited flexibility, and built to support lower kW loads, edge infrastructure now f...

For this episode of the DVL Power Hour, we’ll welcome Stephen Stegall, Senior Project Manager at Georgia Transmission, whose project portfolio includes large and complex initiatives dedicated to data center interconnections. Drawing on his experiences, he’ll be walking us through how utilities scope, engineer, procure, construct, and commission the substations and transmission assets required to bring reliable power to these high-value sites. He’ll provide a grounded look at what it truly tak...

As liquid cooling becomes an operational necessity it is the mechanical contractors and preconstruction teams who are tasked with turning blueprints into reality. We’ll be joined by Jason Gott, Preconstruction Manager at Murphy Company, as he reflects on the shift he’s seeing in real-world data center builds. We’ll also discuss rising heat densities, customer expectations, and the growing complexity of liquid cooling deployments. Additionally, we'll touch on: •What’s top of mind for cu...

In this 2025 "clip show", we take a look back at our top moments and lessons learned from this year's episodes. Here we showcase clips featuring the following guests: Jim Greene (Vertiv)Greg Stover (Vertiv)Mike Murray (Generac Industrial Energy)Tim Pulliam (Generac)Anthony Menicucci, PhD, (University of New Mexico, Sandia National Labs)Jason Gott (Murphy Company)Josh Hunt (DVL Group)Gary Hill (DVL Group)

Join us when we welcome Anthony Menicucci, PhD, Consulting Engineer at Sandia National Labs, to discuss "FLOPS" Total Usage Effectiveness, also known as "FTUE". Dr. Menicucci is one of the creators of this new energy usage metric, which is a basis to assess computing energy usage efficiency relative to cooling power usage - specific to data centers using high-performance computing. We'll discuss: The gaps in current efficiency measurements,Variables within the calculations of FTUE,Results of ...

As electric vehicle adoption accelerates, the demand for reliable high-performance charging solutions is greater than ever. Businesses, commercial properties, and fleet operators need solutions that can handle high-traffic, multi-vehicle fast charging without compromising efficiency or reliability. Join us as we unveil the DVL end-to-end Commercial EV Charging solution, integrating the equipment you’ll need, including switchgear, power distribution, energy storage, and, most importantly, the...

With rising power demands and increasing strain on the US power grid, commercial and industrial facilities face unprecedented energy challenges to their operations. Microgrids offer a smarter, more resilient solution, providing energy independence, cost savings, and enhanced reliability. Join us as we sit down with Mike Murray, Director of Microgrid Solutions at Generac Industrial Energy. We’ll be breaking down the fundamentals of microgrids and exploring how businesses can leverage them for...

While much is being said about liquid cooling’s rise in popularity thanks to AI’s unprecedented rack densities, power management is an equally important part of the equation. As we welcome to the Power Hour Webinar, Jim Greene, Director of AC Power Technical Sales at Vertiv, we’ll examine the impacts AI has on power across your critical infrastructure, including why mechanical loads now require the benefits (and peace of mind) behind UPSs and conditioned power. Other essential points of disc...

Join us, to hear Bill Kleyman, one of the industry’s most trusted leaders, discuss this critical ecosystem and how to implement it in today’s data centers. With more than two decades of experience, Bill has done it all, including managing networks, running data centers, leading strategy and innovation; to currently being the voice for AFCOM and Data Center World, along with starting his own AI company, focused on the data center industry. He is quite uniquely positioned to understand the chan...

In today's world of industrial and manufacturing settings, many environments have hurdles that inhibit flexibility of power management, while also decreasing the potential for growth. Overcoming these challenges and distributing power throughout your facility maximizes operations by allowing you to reconfigure equipment and workflows. To do this, you need a flexible power distribution system like Starline’s Busway. To best implement it, it’s important to understand its capabilities. In this ...

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, Tec...

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...

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, ...

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 Enginee...

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...

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:&nb...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Managing IT Networks is filled with challenges. From the core to the edge, operational demands require your infrastructure to continually support “more”. More compute power, more kVA, more heat density… and more efficiently. While the footprints of IT closets are getting smaller, challenges in these spaces continue to get bigger. Join us for a conversation with Ryan Gruver, IT Director with Banner Health. He’s been building and maintaining IT networks at the edge for more than a...

Terms that have been limited to "ideological" status in the data center landscape for the past 10+ years are finally becoming a part of operational reality. Increasing rack density. High density computing. Liquid cooling. Recent catalysts for this change include the pandemic (with a shift to more at-home networking requirements), IoT, cryptocurrency, and lest we forget: Artificial Intelligence. The demands on data center infrastructure are intensifying, from hyperscalers all the way to...

Join us as we sit down with Benjamin Mitten (VP of Operations, TierPoint) to discuss: • The nitty gritty details of building and fortifying data centers in 2023 • Customer concerns, challenges, and objectives for data center providers • Sustainability (and what this means today, tomorrow, and years down the road) • Building technical teams when candidate pools are more shallow than ever • And more

Data Centers, large and small, are finicky facilities that require quality power, cool temperatures, and clean physical environments. In this webinar, we'll be focusing on the latter, and discussing how contamination control can impact uptime and reliability. These demands become even more challenging as your data center evolves into a larger or more unique space with even more variables and unknowns. We'll be joined by Jon deRidder, CEO of DP Guardian, to discuss: •The biggest...

Melissa Reali-Elliott's, whose perspectives have enlightened critical infrastructure leaders around the globe, will join us for this webinar. She is a contributing author to "Greener Data", a book which asks how we can work together to get our data greener. The Data Center landscape is an increasingly vital part of societal infrastructure, and we'll be covering the topics that data center professionals like you care about. Data center operators require a diverse approach to meet busine...

Data Centers have cemented themselves as foundational components in business operations, becoming a focal point for revenue, service, and most every aspect of the operations driving companies forward. But, as business demands increase, so do the complexities for data center operators and customers alike. H5 Data Centers provides millions of square feet of data center space across the country. Rabin Mahanty (H5, Vice President), has been helping customers understand the planning ...

Data Centers have become vital pieces to virtually everything we do from home-to-office, and yet, they continue to evolve in ways that leave us amazed. As the world clamors for an even deeper digitization, these demands will only be met if we're able to create more capacity for all the data to be managed and functionalized. With the efficiency and effectiveness of these utility-like facilities being tested with each new build and repurposed location, how productive will your organization cont...

In this episode of the DVL Power Hour, we'll be joined by Joe Parrino, President of the Rocky Mountains Chapter of 7x24. Joe's seen almost everything since he began working in data centers well over 20 years ago. In this conversation we'll be discussing: •What's changed and what's stayed the same •Talent scarcity for tomorrow's data centers •Energy reduction and environmental sustainability •And MORE!

Chiller selection for Industrial HVAC Systems can be an extremely complex endeavor. If not strategic in identifying (and solving) the important variables, this aspect of your critical infrastructure will be an excessive burden on your budget. But it doesn’t have to be. In this webinar, we’ll be discussing key factors in choosing the “right” chiller and avoiding unnecessary costs for your facility: How Chiller Ratings, Setpoints, and Condenser Temps effect Capacity RatingsT...

In this podcast, we'll be discussing one of the most critical aspects to driving efficiencies in your HVAC facilities: The Economizer. Join us to learn about: •Economizer Basics: History and evolution, •Variances in Economizer technologies, •Operational benefits for the short-and-long terms, •And more.

The Edge is growing. In volume, and type, and layers of technology powered. The locations in which Edge environments are housed, are becoming more unique. These unique settings bring with them environmental challenges that require specific and tailored answers for operational efficiency and success. Smart Cooling Solutions for the IT Edge are just what the doctor ordered for these lingering questions.

Cooling IT environments has been a challenge since the advent of the computer. While the machines processing the data may have gotten smaller, the challenges to keep them cool haven't. There's Heat Load Densities, Sensible Heat Ratios, and an ever-increasing continual digitization of our society driving more hardware to be cooled than ever before. Enter Precision Cooling.

Mechanical challenges in HVAC systems come from a multitude of angles, but it’s how you prepare and manage for those challenges that dictate your project’s overall success. In this episode of the DVL Power Hour, we’ll be covering the moving pieces of HVAC systems and the strategies to keep them in working order.

DVL Group's CEO, Gary Hill, has been with the company for more than 25 years, and in that time, he has battled a challenge or two. He's worked with customers to find answers for some of the data center industry's biggest challenges. In addition, as the world became (and continues to become even more) digitized, Gary engineered cooling solutions through the heat of the dot-com era, Y2K, into the cloud, and beyond the product.

Keeping temps inside your Data Center at an acceptable level is Priority #1. But as technology (and our understanding of global environmental impacts) evolves, we’re able to achieve primary objectives like this one; along with reducing annual spend, being more efficient with resources, and extending lifespans across infrastructure. But how? Join us in this webcast as we discuss the BIG impacts being made by small adjustments to your modus operandi for facility cooling. M...

IT Closets are finicky pieces of IT. These spaces are usually smaller, deployed quickly, and create a lot of heat compared to the spaces they’ve been built into. No wonder these critical pieces of our infrastructure require a little TLC to ensure confidence in your Operations. In this Power Hour we’ll be delving into the daily challenges behind IT Cooling, and how to manage these variables for a healthy IT Closet. Learn more about: •The Science of IT Cooling •Ch...

The digital transformation is experiencing an exponential increase of more daily RPMs. This means the data center community is at a crossroad of having business strategies impacted by carbon footprint and climate change, while also resulting business operations must have positive impacts on these same environmental variables. These increased demands will require more value from all aspects of the data center's infrastructure, including facility-wide cooling.

Join us as we sit down with Dr. Alfonso Ortega from Villanova University. He and his team work to transfer research into technology. As an integral part of the National Science Foundation Center for Energy Smart Electronic Systems, he’s working on the development of new methods for holistic controls of power and cooling as a result of IT demand. Our conversation will center on cutting edge liquid cooling solutions and their use in high performance computing systems.

An introduction to Underwriters Laboratories’ (UL) standards and the impact of those standards for standby power generation. Originally recorded May 28, 2020 as a webinar.

The distribution and accessibility of power have a huge impact on the foundation of your operational architecture. In the power equation, these have historically been set-it-and-forget-it variables in your planning process. But, have you considered how operations can be ENABLED by an adaptable power distribution methodology? This webinar explores the Starline Busway, the revolutionary power distribution system that has benefits across varying applications.

Today's monitoring of Critical Infrastructure crosses many bridges from IT to Facilities. Functionally, applications have been more centrally focused on management of network alerts (or the all-too-common false alarm). But the role of monitoring is expanding to include a myriad of new variables and resulting benefits, and in this webcast we'll be discussing impacts to the facility management landscape, security levels of cloud technologies, and budget improvements regarding Equipment Lifecycl...

Lack of maintenance is the NUMBER ONE cause of failure to industrial generators. It's a "common sense" fact, and yet it continues to cost businesses revenue each year. When the power goes out: Dollars are lost due to Operations downtime and lack of Network availability, along with expensive generator repairs... but they don't have to be.

Your school district needs new technology, and you need to understand how best to manage the Federal Government's E-rate program. Every year educational organizations are awarded $3.9B to assist with a multitude of technology needs. In this podcast, we'll be covering info to help you prepare requests for the financial support your Organizations are entitled to.

Creating disaster-proof continuity across company-wide Operations requires a lot to properly manage. Included here, the data behind standby-and-large power solutions. This information is critical to assuring disaster recovery, especially so in the realm of facility generators. Enter monitoring solutions.

With data growth creating a tsunami of bits and bytes, the evolving Data Center universe will not be slowing down any time soon. The demands of this evolution may be driving you to a new build, or perhaps strengthening an existing location. In either scenario, the many moving pieces of managing a Data Center project can quickly become overwhelming. Data Center project management experts discuss everything from cost estimates to vendor selection to meeting deadlines, and more.

We will discuss options for building out your critical infrastructure to support the rising need of increased capacities in Healthcare facilities. This will include Power and Cooling solutions for those building Coronavirus testing areas and operational improvements for insights into the status of critical facilities.

As the world adjusts to the demands of a “New Normal”, those building and operating Critical Infrastructure are not immune to the required changes – and gaps in visibility caused by these changes. But even before the Coronavirus, monitoring the powering and cooling of a facility had evolved past ‘a Tech hoofing to check-out an alarm’.

In this episode, Robert Leake is joined by DVL's John Yacina (Power Systems Sales Manager). Powering Enterprise-grade Data Centers provide the foundation that your Operations are built upon and poses questions from security to sustainability to those Teams. You want reliable power supporting your critical loads, and in this podcast we’ll provide a better understanding to achieve that goal through Data Center Tier Structures and how they apply to you, and more.

Potential stresses to your cooling systems are discussed. Improperly conditioned facilities can result in a myriad of problems from IT hardware malfunctions to loss of employee productivity. Properly maintaining this infrastructure ensures operation at the highest possible reliability level. Robert Leake is joined by DVL's Sanja Motz (Vice President of Service Operations) , Michael Hagan (Director of Thermal Services), and Matthew Hudspeth (Thermal Operations Lead Technician).

Battery Technologies continue to adapt to the world’s demand for more power. In Critical Facilities, these adaptations have been met with a mix of speculation and resistance. The Myths created from these perspectives are significantly limiting opportunities to recognize numerous benefits. In this episode of the DVL Power Hour, we address the real pros and cons of battery technologies. Host Robert Leake is joined by Sean Delaney from DVL's Philadelphia office.