Siemens and Rittal have entered into a strategic partnership to jointly develop future-proof, sustainable solutions for more efficient power distribution in data centers. The standardized infrastructure is designed to accelerate the construction of high-performance data centers, minimize time-to-compute, and address the rapidly increasing power densities of AI applications. The collaboration targets the market in which the electrical codes and standards of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) are recognized and used, which covers a large number of countries worldwide.
In AI data centers, power densities exceeding 100 kW per rack have become the norm. By 2030, power density could increase more than tenfold. This requires new architectures for power distribution, cooling, and heat recovery. To address this, Siemens is partnering with the Friedhelm Loh Group and its largest company, Rittal, a global provider of racks and standardized infrastructure, including power and cooling for leading cloud providers.
One of the first joint solutions will be an application that is housed directly in the heart of a data center where the server cabinets and data storage are located. By bundling the power electronics in a separate power rack that supplies the server cabinets, this type of power supply represents a breakthrough for future AI applications.
