DCD>Connect | APAC
DCD>Connect | APAC will bring together over 2,000 senior leaders working on the largest data center projects in Asia Pacific, offering unrivalled opportunities to collaborate across the ecosystem, forge strategic partnerships and identify innovative solutions to your challenges.
Munters Data Center Technologies is a market-leading provider of advanced climate solutions for cooling data centers. With a diversified product portfolio and extensive application knowledge, we create sustainable climate solutions for data center operators around the world.
Visit Munters stand #26 to learn about our data center cooling solutions.
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Munters Sponsored Panel: Debate: Is hybrid cooling creating flexibility or confusion in high density environments?
June 10, 2026
As rack densities rise, operators are increasingly adopting liquid cooling in both new and retrofit projects. The balance between air and liquid continues to evolve, leaving operators to decide how and when to integrate liquid cooling without driving up cost or complexity. The challenge now is how to design adaptable cooling systems that meet today’s thermal demands while keeping the door open for future technologies. In a world where GPUs evolve faster than the infrastructure built to support them, can cooling strategies ever truly keep pace?
This debate will explore:
- When hybrid cooling makes the most sense and when full liquid adoption becomes inevitable
- How to retrofit existing systems for liquid cooling without compromising uptime or reliability
- Whether modular systems are the smartest route to liquid adoption
- If designing for flexibility today builds adaptability for the future or simply adds complexity and cost
- Where flexibility ends and over-engineering begins in the race to go liquid
- If the "liquid everywhere" narrative distracts from more practical, hybrid approaches