AI Demand Is Forcing a Rethink of Data Center Power, Cooling

AI Demand Is Forcing a Rethink of Data Center Power, Cooling

Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana AI’s infrastructure boom is pushing data centers to their limits, forcing operators to rethink power, cooling, and construction all at once. At this week’s Data Center World (DCW) Conference in Washington, DC, speakers from research firm Omdia, Aligned Data Centers, and Vertiv laid out the various ways in which…

AI servers lift Taiwan supply chain broadly in 2025, gains center on ODM/EMS, cooling, optical

AI servers lift Taiwan supply chain broadly in 2025, gains center on ODM/EMS, cooling, optical

Taiwan’s AI server supply chain delivered broad-based growth in 2025, fueled by surging generative AI and cloud data center spending, but the biggest gains clustered around two areas: system-level integration led by original design manufacturer (ODM)/electronics…