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POWERING THE AI ERA: WHY DATA CENTRES ARE MOVING TO 800 VDC
As AI workloads continue to grow in scale and complexity, organisations are facing mounting pressure to rethink the power infrastructure that underpins their digital environments. Steven Carlini, Chief Advocate, Data Center and AI, Schneider Electric, tells us how the shift towards high-voltage DC architectures is set to redefine data centre design, enabling greater efficiency, scalability and resilience for next-generation AI deployments.
AI adoption is rapidly accelerating, looking to reshape the foundations of the digital infrastructure. As AI workloads scale, power systems needed to support them are reaching their limits.
Historically, the transition between Alternating Current( AC) and Direct Current( DC) changed how power was generated and distributed in America’ s electric grid. Today’ s industry is entering a similar stage of transformation, driven by growing AI demands. With power infrastructure being the defining factor in how fast organisations can scale their AI capabilities, next generation AI racks will move towards one megawatt per rack approach rather than beyond hundreds of kilowatts method.
The most substantial shift in the AI race is those organisations entering to build and scale AI data
Steven Carlini, Chief Advocate, Data Center and AI, Schneider Electric www. intelligentcio. com
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