Powering Today’s Data Centers Requires an Effective Grid-to-Gate Strategy (Download)
Today’s data centers have developed a ravenous appetite for power as they tackle large language models and other compute-intensive artificial-intelligence (AI) and machine-learning (ML) applications. Figure 1 shows the growth in server-rack power requirements from 2010 with forecasts to 2028.
While power requirements were relatively constant throughout the first decade of that period, they have exploded since 2020. Consequently, the IT server rack is evolving to efficiently deliver that power from the utility grid to the semiconductor gate.