Richard Tribble is a Cooling Product Champion and Technical Consultant for ChemTreat, a provider of water treatment solutions for data center facilities in North and South America.
The AI era is turning data center cooling into a high-stakes water-energy negotiation, where evaporative efficiency, air-cooled resilience, and site-specific regulations collide — and where mechanical contractors are expected to keep systems clean, compliant, and maintainable from startup onward.
