FINAL WORD embracing what’ s to come and being prepared for even greater power shifts.
What practical steps or best practices can operators adopt today to scale high-density rack power safely and efficiently, while maintaining flexibility for the future?
I’ ve been in the data centre space for many years and I’ ve never seen this much change. It’ s hard to keep up with, let alone implement them all. The truth is; many of the regular applications are perfectly suitable for a typical operator. The demand for typical PDUs is still doing very well and the 100 A PDU is still providing a considerable amount of good value. Not everyone needs 100 – 150 kW. If you are monitoring and evaluating regularly and operations are smooth and successful, there’ s no need for concern.
On the flip side, if you need to change or upgrade, innovation is constant. We’ re working on power shelves that will have an 18 kW supply. These will be 3U – much larger and bulkier. The busbars will continue to evolve, as will these high-voltage DC applications. As aforementioned, change and innovation are so rapid that evaluating your needs is crucial – this includes assessing your philosophy and what is and isn’ t required.
How does Legrand’ s ORv3-ready infrastructure help operators and what specific features or benefits make it well-suited for high-density, AI-driven rack deployments?
Our approach is to be a trusted advisor. In some of the open compute presentations I’ ve seen over the last few years I’ ve noticed everyone seems to be concentrating on the hyperscalers, financials, insurance, safety, compliance and more. But the hardest part is getting somebody who will work with them, share information and help in the design because it’ s still very new – it’ s a completely different structure and operators are wary.
At Legrand, we offer a trusted advisor; someone who’ ll work with you, inspect your applications, consider the kW requirements and understand what you’ re trying to achieve in terms of design. Once this is established, the cabinet and busbar will be acquired along with power shelves and anything else, whether that’ s a typical cabinet or the AI open compute infrastructure. •
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