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As AI-driven workloads push data center infrastructure to new limits, the challenges of power delivery, thermal management
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To better respond to a rapidly changing industry, senior leaders at Flex are helping shape the next generation of AI infrastructure.
Key facts
- True scale will emerge as 400 to 800 VDC data center power infrastructures and 1MW racks are deployed at volume,” he says, adding
- Campbell further emphasizes the global scale of Flex’s operations, noting that the company has a significant footprint in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, more than 48 million square feet
- Voltage levels will likely continue to rise beyond 800 VDC, as they did with the solar industry’s shift to higher…
- Earlier generation data centers were built around general-purpose CPUs running at roughly 150 watts per chip
Summary
As AI-driven workloads push data center infrastructure to new limits, the challenges of power delivery, thermal management, and IT equipment operability within the new data center infrastructure space are becoming increasingly complex, causing a significant hit on deployment speed. Rob Campbell, president of Flex’s communications, enterprise, and cloud business, leads initiatives focused on compute, networking, and storage at scale, along with systems integration, liquid cooling, and deployment strategies designed to support the evolving demands of AI and cloud environments. While many foundational elements of the data center – such as racks housing IT equipment, power infrastructure, and thermal management – have long been central and remain so in the AI era, the way these elements are designed, scaled, and operated continues to evolve, alongside additional core concepts that are now fundamentally shifting.