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Data Center Market Trends: 10 Questions with Weidmuller
August 13, 2026 Data centers are evolving faster than ever — driven by rising energy demands, the push for sustainability, and the integration of AI and edge computing. To better understand how these shifts are -
Powering the AI Factory: The Role of 800 VDC Distribution and ISOP Converters in Next-Generation Data Centers
August 13, 2026 By: Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio, Contributing Editor at Data Centre Digest Artificial intelligence workloads are rapidly reshaping data center power architectures. Conventional server infrastructure was not originally designed to sustain today’s extreme -
ABB Powers Up: Key Factors for Higher-Voltage MV Systems in AI Data Centers
August 13, 2026 By Dr. Harsh Karandikar and Yasir Shinaishin, ABB The power density and scale of AI computing deployments are changing every aspect of how data centers are designed and operated. For decades, data -
Rethinking Power Delivery for AI-Scale Data Centers
August 13, 2026 By Sasha Ishmael, Principal Engineer, Technology and Industry Solutions, VEIR The data center industry is attempting to scale AI infrastructure with power delivery architectures designed for a fundamentally different era of compute -
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 -
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. -
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 -
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 -
Power, Cooling, and Sustainability: Solving the 2026 AI Data Center Energy Crunch
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
PowerUP Contributing Editor
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.