The Data Center Frontier Show Flex on the Future of AI-Scale Data Centers: Integrated, Modular, and Ready to Deploy
Dec 2, 2025
In this engaging conversation, Rob Campbell, President of Flex Communications, and Chris Butler, President of Flex Power, unveil Flex’s innovative integrated data center platform, designed for the AI era. They discuss how modular designs cut deployment times by up to 30% and explore the groundbreaking use of JetCool’s liquid cooling technology. The duo dives into future power systems, highlighting the shift to 400V and 800V DC architectures. Rob and Chris also emphasize their unique global manufacturing footprint and vision for a circular economy in data center design.
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Integration Solves AI-Scale Constraints
- Flex unified power, cooling, and IT into a single modular platform to address AI-scale power, heat, and scale challenges.
- Factory pre-integration of pods and skids reduces on-site engineering and cuts deployment time by up to 30%.
Pre-Test Modules To Cut Site Risk
- Pre-test and pre-configure modules so customers get ready-to-deploy systems that minimize on-site risk and integration time.
- Standardize building blocks across power, cooling, and IT to make deployments repeatable and scalable.
Nested Modularity In Liquid Cooling
- JetCool's chip-level liquid cooling plus modular CDUs lets racks scale from ~600 kW to 1.8 MW with daisy-chained CDU modules.
- That nested modularity enables incremental scaling of racks, pods, and whole sites without redesigning the cooling architecture.