Data centre industry moving fast to racks with megawatt power density: Vertiv CEO
The power density of data centre racks reaching one megawatt (MW) is becoming a near-term reality as the industry moves beyond racks with 100 kilowatt (KW) power density to accommodate artificial intelligence (AI), Giordano Albertazzi, CEO of global data centre solutions provider Vertiv told ET.
He also said, India is the second fastest growing market after the United States for the company. Securely housing, and cooling IT equipment like servers, storage, and networking gear, data centre racks earlier operated at 15–30 KW density, but high-performance computing (HPC), AI workloads and cloud infrastructure expansion have doubled power requirement of racks in the past 2 years.
