Webinar: The 1MW Rack Challenge: Redesigning Data Center Power Delivery for the AI Era
Presenter: Matthew Fall, Technology Analyst, IDTechEx
Date: Thursday 21 May 2026
Power electronics plays a critical role across all electronics applications. IDTechEx's latest report "Power Electronics Market 2026-2036: Data Centers, Electric Vehicles, and Renewables" forecasts the power electronics market to reach US$65.2 billion by 2036. With server rack power expected to exceed 1MW by 2030 in advanced AI "factories", existing data center power architecture simply cannot deliver enough power. Influenced directly by EV power architecture, Nvidia and tens of partners are together developing solutions for 800VDC (HVDC) data center architecture. Driven by increased power density requirements and enabled by wide bandgap technology, this architecture promises to future-proof AI data centers for years to come.
In this 30-minute webinar from IDTechEx, Technology Analyst Matthew Fall will provide key insights on data center power electronics technologies and players involved in the HVDC data center transition.
The webinar agenda will include:
- Wide bandgap semiconductors SiC and GaN, and their role in enabling the HVDC transition.
- Incumbent data center architecture, and the challenges posed by AI training and inference.
- 800VDC data centers, and the electric vehicle influences on this power architecture.
- Other challenges AI poses for data centers, including the challenges associated with synchronous training loads
Choose your preferred time zone - the webinar runs three times during the day.
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