From the 1 MW rack to the AI factory: rethinking power from grid to GPU

By Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio, Marcom Director, EPC

Artificial intelligence is creating a new generation of data centers. It’s not just about cramming more computing into a rack anymore. It delivers hundreds of kilowatts, and ultimately megawatts to that rack in an efficient, reliable way with a practical physical footprint.

The scale of the transformation is becoming apparent. NVIDIA is creating an 800 VDC power architecture for AI infrastructure that can handle 1 MW racks and above. New projects are being announced at multi-gigawatt scale. OpenAI, for example, has locked in some 8 GW of IT capacity at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Ohio, with the first capacity expected to be brought online later this decade.

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