AI Data Centers Are Being Rewired. One Critical Metal Is Moving With Them
Artificial intelligence has spent the past several years turning chips into infrastructure. Now the infrastructure around those chips is changing too.The problem is power. Electricity entering a data center can pass through several conversions before it reaches the processor, and each one adds losses, equipment and complexity. As AI racks move toward megawatt-scale power requirements, the industry is redesigning that path around 800-volt direct current (VDC). The shift is already moving from engineering diagrams into commercial hardware, and one critical metal is showing up inside the new ...