The transition to 800VDC is no longer just a theoretical discussion. Across the data center industry, growing AI workloads and increasing rack densities are driving serious conversations about how power is delivered to next-generation compute infrastructure.
Today, most of those discussions are focused on the whitespace, and for good reason. Racks and GPUs are consuming unprecedented amounts of power and reshaping facility design priorities.
But while the industry’s attention remains fixed on powering compute, a broader question is beginning to emerge: what happens when the transition to 800VDC extends beyond the rack to cooling infrastructure?
As native DC power architectures mature, cooling systems may follow a four-phase adoption path, from optional rack-level deployment to native DC rack cooling, broader whitespace adoption, and ultimately facility-wide DC-powered infrastructure.
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