Data Report
Trends and outlook for data center rack densities
Rack power density is a key metric that informs engineers in making design choices for data centers. Underestimating rack power density can mean empty space in data halls and an inability to handle high-density cabinets; overestimating can result in unnecessary finance squandered on unused power capacity.
This has not been a major issue up to now as rack densities have been fairly stable, but this may be changing. Growing demand for high-performance computing (HPC) applications, together with a general increase in typical server power, has helped drive higher densities. This is especially true for many operators of large data center organizations that more typically house higher performance servers.
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