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    What Gets Operationally Harder as AI-Ready Data Centers Scale

    August 13, 2026 By Jason Agee, Director of Data Center Solutions and Architecture, Delta Electronics In AI data centers running at 2+ megawatts per rack, the hardest aspect to get right is operations. That’s because extreme densities don’t just impose refinements on existing operating models; they break them. The failure modes at this density just…

    How to Make Edge Data Centers More Energy Efficient

    August 13, 2026 By: Paul Quigley, Chief Strategic Relations Officer, AIRSYS Energy efficiency is not a new concept in the data center industry, but it is most often discussed in the context of hyperscale facilities. The rapid growth of AI has been closely associated with high-density hyperscalers, their rising power consumption, cooling demands, and global…

    Feeding the Beast: Scaling Data Center Infrastructure Capacity To Plan for Production AI

    August 13, 2026 When Theory Meets Reality In 2025, Gartner predicted that by the end of the year, one-third of AI projects would not progress beyond the proof-of-concept phase. As we navigate 2026, that prediction has largely proved accurate. The gap between prototype success and production deployment is not primarily a technical capability—it is infrastructure…

    Grid Bottlenecks and Data Center Growth: How Digital Substations Unlock Speed, Reliability, and Affordability

    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…

    Power Distribution and Efficiency: The Foundation of Reliable Data Center Operations

    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…

    Why AI Data Center Power Should be Built Like AI Compute

    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…

    Power Integrity in AI Racks: The Next Bottleneck in Next-Generation Data Centers

    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,…

    POWERDIGEST Contributing Editor

    Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio

    Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio holds a Ph.D. in Physics and is a Telecommunications Engineer. He is Director of Global Marketing Communications at EPC (Efficient Power Conversion), where he manages worldwide initiatives to showcase the company’s GaN innovations. He is a prolific technical author of books on GaN, SiC, energy harvesting, and data acquisition and control systems, and has extensive experience as an editor for technical magazines and online publications in power electronics, wide bandgap semiconductors, and embedded systems.