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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.

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Data Center Infrastructure Podcast - Ep 10 - AI Pods and Internet Exchanges with Bryan Lubin of Moonshot Oct 12, 2026 00:42:59 Training AI happens in giant campuses. Inference, the next wave, needs compute close to the people using it, and many states don’t have the network to support it.Recorded in Austin, Eric and Lance sit down with Bryan Lubin of Moonshot Energy, a former private banker and chief credit officer who now underwrites power, land, and compute. Bryan explains the infranet. Moonshot and Connected Nation Int

Data Center Infrastructure Podcast - Ep 9 - Dell's David Holmes on the Data Center-Aware Grid Oct 5, 2026 00:56:14 AI data centers swing their power draw by tens of megawatts in seconds, and the grid wasn't built for it. David Holmes, Global Industries CTO for Energy at Dell Technologies, sits down with Eric Sonner and Lance Teel in Austin to talk about what it takes to fix that.David covers why AI loads are so hard on generators and transformers, how long-duration flow batteries buffer a data center from

Data Center Infrastructure Podcast - Ep 8 - The Battery That Turns Data Centers Into Grid Assets Sep 28, 2026 00:31:53 A normal data center battery buys you 10 minutes. This one runs for 10 hours, can't catch fire, and can turn a data center into a power plant for its neighbors.Recording in Dallas, Eric and Lance sit down with Jeff Goldberg, Chief Development Officer and co-founder of TerraFlow Energy, maker of vanadium flow batteries that work as a power hub. Every source a site has flows through the battery,

Data Center Infrastructure Podcast - Ep 7 - Sovereign AI and Europe's Data Center Wave Sep 21, 2026 00:51:31 When Gary Wojtaszek got into data centers, 10 megawatts was enormous. Now he builds gigawatt digital factories.Eric and Lance sit down with Gary "Wojo" Wojtaszek, Executive Chairman of Pure Data Centres Group and former CEO of CyrusOne, which he took public and scaled into one of the largest operators in the world. Wojo traces the industry's whole arc, from finding a data center busi

Data Center Infrastructure Podcast - Ep 6 - Saving Water Via Desalination with Nona Technologies Sep 14, 2026 00:29:00 About a third of the water a traditional cooling tower consumes never cools anything. This episode is about the machine that fixes that. Recording at the Future Bridge High Density Power Conference in Dallas, Eric and Lance meet their first walk up guest. Bruce Crawford, CEO and co-founder of Nona Technologies, an MIT spinout that started with briefcase-sized units turning seawater into drinking w

Data Center Infrastructure Podcast - Ep 5 - Microreactors and the Future of Data Center Power Sep 7, 2026 00:34:26 A nuclear reactor that fits in a shipping container, built on an assembly line, and sold out through 2035.Recording on the road at the Future Bridge High Density Power Conference, Eric and Lance sit down with Richard Gaut, CFO of Deployable Energy, maker of a one megawatt microreactor. Eric discloses up front that he's an angel investor, then Richard explains why nuclear's problem was never the ph

Data Center Infrastructure Podcast - Ep 4 - SB6, Batch Zero, and Texas Grid Power Explained Aug 31, 2026 01:02:08 Texas hit pause on the biggest data center buildout in history, and this episode explains why.Lance and Eric welcome their first remote guest, Del Hilber of Atlas Energy Solutions, who brings 25 years in energy markets, from the Constellation trading floor in the Enron era to running one of the largest demand response portfolios in North America. Professor Del, as Lance calls him, breaks down Sena

Data Center Infrastructure Podcast - Ep 3 - Why AI Data Centers Are Leaving the Grid w/ Jake Corley Aug 25, 2026 00:56:54 The line for grid power in Texas has grown past 400 gigawatts. Jake Corley decided to skip the line entirely. In episode three of the Data Center Infrastructure Podcast, Lance Teel and Eric Sonner sit down with Jake Corley, Marine Corps veteran and founder of Corley Energy, who is building off grid data center infrastructure on a West Texas site so remote he calls it Wile E. Coyote territory. No m

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 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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