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Cool Vector is a video-podcast about the rise of data centers and the digital infrastructure asset class.

Podcast · By david95a · English · Official site

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10
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Sep 15, 2026
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 15, 2026

    Data Centers Have a Community Engagement Problem (opens the original)

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    The data center industry has been caught off-guard by public backlash, and must respond with transparency and much deeper community engagement, three communications veterans tell Cool Vector. The Cool Vector episode, "Data Centers Have a Community Engagement Problem," includes Megan Baker, founder and principal of Tuli Public Affairs, Ilissa Miller, founder and CEO of iMiller Public Relations, and Phillip Koblence, CEO of Critical Ventures as well as co-founder of Nomad Futurist. The experts unp

  2. Episode · Sep 10, 2026

    What Might 'Throw a Wrench' Into Data Center Financings? (opens the original)

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    A boom in off-balance-sheet data center development is made possible by the good credit of hyperscaler customers, says Harold Chen, Senior Director in Fitch's Complex Credit Group. In a conversation with Cool Vector, Chen says he expects courts to enforce the guarantees made to these special-purpose vehicles, and to their underlying bondholders, should hyperscalers find it necessary to walk away from data center lease agreements. Chen joins Hadassa Lutz, a partner at Cloud2Ground and host David

  3. Episode · Aug 25, 2026

    The 'Big Game Changers' for Data Center MEP Engineers (opens the original)

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    The growing implementation of liquid cooling technologies is forcing data center MEP engineers to rethink their fundamental design assumptions, says Chris Sutton, founder of Sutton Engineering which specializes in data center design. Sutton tells Cool Vector that, while the electrical side of data center infrastructure reached a level of maturity some time ago, the mechanical side is now in the middle of a significant transformation, and keeping up with that transformation comes down to having a

  4. Episode · Aug 4, 2026

    Emerging Markets Need More Data Centers (opens the original)

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    Emerging and developing markets remain significantly underinvested in digital infrastructure, says Obinna Isiadinso, the global sector lead for data centers and cloud services investments at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). "India today has something like 1.7 gigawatts of capacity, compared to Northern Virginia that has 3 or 4 gigawatts," Isiadinso tells Cool Vector, citing the country as an example of an emerging market facing a compute constraint. Isiadinso, whose team has invested

  5. Episode · Jul 30, 2026

    Oracle’s Director of Construction Says Building Data Centers is Like Building Cities (opens the original)

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    Building AI infrastructure at gigawatt scale means "developing city-sized machines,'" says Craig Deering, senior construction manager at Oracle. Drawing on decades of experience — from dismantling AT&T and building the Baby Bells to leading cloud and now AI data center projects — Deering tells Cool Vector: "The challenges of developing a city-sized machine have been known for at least a century. We just need to realize that we're building at that scale." Deering shares his outlook on the economi

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