Bernie Oegema

Bernie is a Professional Engineer with a long track record working in the data centre market. Prior to joining Siemens, he worked at IBM in their data centre design/build team and widened his experience from critical electrical systems to include controls and mechanical systems for the upgrade and new construction of data centres for high performance computing, enterprise, and colocation. He has seen the industry evolve from year-round AC operation to more efficient cooling designs with increased use of free-cooling to the increasing trend to recover and reuse that waste heat, especially as warm liquid cooling is becoming more prevalent. In the last few years, Bernie has been heavily involved in projects for new AI factories as well as retrofits of existing legacy data centres for high density AI workloads. Bernie is also helping Siemens’ clients improve the efficiency of data centres operations while maintaining the highest levels of reliability and flexibility demanded of their missi