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Keith Gipson

Jun 18, 2026

8:21
So conventional
8:22
wisdom says that you should always keep your water as cold as possible.
8:25
And that's the wrong thing to do in a central plant.
8:27
So now we're going to get into psychometrics and thermodynamics.
8:31
You ask anybody, what should you do to optimize your central plant? Make the condenser water as cold as possible because it helps to lift on the chiller.
8:39
And the lift is the difference between the refrigerant temperature and the chilled water.
8:43
And that's the worst thing you could do.

5 MINS LATER

13:59
So does Facile AI, is it in the background of that? Are we looking at a screen that's showing what's happening? Is there maintenance to be done, updating, or is it just all automatic?
17:28
So let's talk about what Facile AI actually does.
17:31
So the, I'm really on a mission because I've seen both sides of the equation.
17:35
I actually, this isn't my, I think it's relevant, this is actually not my first foray into AI.
17:40
So 20 years ago I took a hiatus from the controls industry.
17:44
I'd, I'd founded a couple companies in controls, enterprise energy management, monitoring based commissioning, demand response.
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Like those are among the technologies that I helped create and pioneer.
17:54
So I was tired.
19:44
How did this come up?

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