Power Ups

August 10, 2026 Sponsored Article from ABB As power providers face increasing data center demand, digital substation technologies streamline grid interconnection while enhancing reliability, visibility, and lifecycle cost efficiency. By: Harsh Karandikar, Ph.D., VP of Product Management at ABB and Luiz Marques, Strategic Marketing Manager, Utility & Renewable at ABB After decades of relatively flat…

August 10, 2026 If you spend any time around data center projects in 2026, you hear the same phrase over and over: “We could build it if only we could get the power.” Demand for AI is strong. Land is often available. Network routes can be engineered. But in many markets, the grid is the…

August 10, 2026 Power as Foundation Power infrastructure is the foundation on which all data center operations rest. No matter how sophisticated the compute hardware, how advanced the cooling systems, or how intelligent the orchestration, without reliable power delivery, data centers cease functioning. In 2026, this fundamental truth faces unprecedented challenges as AI workloads drive…

August 10, 2026 By: Raghu Belur, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Enphase Energy For most of the industry’s history, a data center’s limit was compute. Today, the limit is power. We’ve started describing capacity in megawatts and gigawatts instead of in racks or FLOPS, and that tells you where the constraint now sits. The electrical…

August 10, 2026 By: Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio, Contributing Editor at Data Centre Digest The fast growth of computational density of AI accelerators is fundamentally changing the design of power delivery networks (PDNs). Although rack power levels have increased from tens of kilowatts to several hundred kilowatts, processor core voltage levels have been kept below 1 V,…