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Data Center Infrastructure Podcast

Data Center Infrastructure Podcast

Data Airflow 1 Episodes Aug 17, 2026

The Data Center Infrastructure Podcast explores the often-overlooked mechanical systems that keep massive AI and HPC data centers running. Hosts Eric Sonner of Data Airflow and Lance Teel of Atlas Energy explain the engineering, procurement, and commissioning behind the buildout of these facilities. Each Monday, the show breaks down how billions of dollars of compute hardware stays operational. The podcast is produced by Data Airflow, a company specializing in mechanical systems for hyperscale data centers.

Episodes

From Bitcoin Chicken Coops to Billion Dollar AI Data Centers
From Bitcoin Chicken Coops to Billion Dollar AI Data Centers Aug 17, 2026 00:45:15 Lance and Eric welcome their first guest, Josh Bennett, COO of Data Airflow, fresh off a three week road trip through four data center sites in upstate New York, Kentucky, and the Permian Basin. Josh shares his path from a warehouse job at 17, no college, to running commissioning operations on billion dollar builds, and explains the least understood job in the industry. His teams try to break data
From Dirt to Data: Why Cooling Decides Who Wins the AI Race
From Dirt to Data: Why Cooling Decides Who Wins the AI Race Aug 10, 2026 00:24:52 Somewhere in America, a piece of dirt is about to become a data center. Eric Sonner (Data Airflow) and Lance Teel (Atlas Energy) kick off the Data Center Infrastructure Podcast with the part of the story nobody tells, the cooling, power, and mechanical systems that stand between raw land and racks of live compute. Eric explains how his team sizes cooling for a 200 megawatt building the size of two

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