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Surging AI workloads are forcing a fundamental rethink of rack-level power. As traditional designs give way to open compute power shelves and high-voltage DC architectures the challenge is no longer just delivering more power but doing so safely flexibly and at scale. Calvin Nicholson, Senior Director of Product Management, Legrand, explains how infrastructure strategies are evolving to meet the demands of next-generation high-performance environments.

What fundamental shifts are you seeing in rack-level power architecture and how are operators adapting their distribution monitoring and resilience strategies?

There has been a lot of changes recently with densities rising sharply and we ' re seeing this effect multiple parts of our business. Typical power distribution within the cabinet is 60 A / 400 V but now we ' re seeing a fundamental shift to 125 A internationally.

To combat this radical change we’ re targeting multiple PDUs in the cabinet to meet the higher workloads as well as increased adoption of open compute solutions where multiple power shelves can be stacked to achieve higher densities. Although there is a higher cost with such

Calvin Nicholson, Senior Director of Product Management, Legrand www. intelligentcio. com

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