Is Your Company’s Data Center Ready for AI?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is on the minds of many. Individual companies with the largest web presence are spending billions on full-bore AI data center construction. $50 billion per QUARTER is being invested by just the four leading hyperscalers (AWS, Google, Microsoft and Meta) in data center infrastructure, from servers to cooling technologies to power infrastructure to the structures themselves.

For most, new data center construction is what’s required due to the extreme power densities of AI. Data centers have historically operated at around 5 kilowatts (kW) per rack. 10kW per rack is common now and some early adopters are utilizing newer technology designed for 20kW to 25kW per rack.

AI servers operate at a much higher density. 100kW per rack, with 200kW on the way. For most users this is a 10x to 40x increase in power density.  This creates a massive cooling challenge. Corporate data centers in Eastern Pennsylvania are simply not architected to meet those requirements without significant investments in cooling technology, airflow management, and power infrastructure. And those investments offer results that are far from turnkey. Supply chain challenges require a year or more for many of the components required to land once ordered.

Those common limitations are not an obstacle to engaging in AI projects and operating them locally here in Eastern Pennsylvania. For more information read the new executive report from Direct LTx. Click here to readTech’s Hyperscale Giants are Scrambling to Create AI-Ready Infrastructure. In the Philadelphia Market it is Already Here.