The Megawatt Frontier: How AI and High-Density Hardware are Reshaping the Modern Data Center
By Christopher Tozzi Technology Analyst Executive Overview For decades, the physical blueprint of the modern data center remained remarkably consistent. Operators planned their real estate, power distribution, and thermal management around a dependable baseline: roughly 10 kilowatts (kW) of sustained power per equipment rack. While high-performance computing (HPC) environments occasionally pushed these limits, they were…
