Dell’Oro Group’s Data Center High-Density Power Advanced Research Report provides a five-year forecast of the emerging market for next-generation data center power distribution. The research examines DC power distribution technologies, customer adoption, regional trends, and vendor positioning as higher-density AI infrastructure drives changes in data center power architectures.
AI workloads are pushing rack densities far beyond what today’s data center power systems were designed to handle. Traditional architectures based on 415/480 VAC power distribution are being challenged, while new approaches are emerging to disaggregate power from accelerated computing equipment and distribute power at 48V, 400V, and 800VDC across racks, rows, data halls, and data centers.
The research analyzes how power shelves, battery back-up units, in-rack busbars, and solid-state electronics are redefining power delivery, while assessing the implications for established technologies such as UPS and traditional rack PDUs.
The transition toward high-density computing is creating new requirements for how power is converted, distributed, and managed throughout the data center. As power architectures evolve, technology choices can have significant implications for efficiency, scalability, infrastructure design, and the existing data center power equipment ecosystem.
Understanding these changes helps data center operators, equipment vendors, and investors assess technology adoption, vendor opportunities, and how next-generation power architectures could reshape established and emerging market segments.
5-year outlook for Data Center High-Density Power equipment
Power shelves, battery back-up units, in-rack busbars, and solid-state electronics
Manufacturers’ revenue, units shipped, and average selling price
Top 10 Cloud Service Providers, Rest of Cloud, Colocation, Telco Service Providers, Large Enterprises, and Rest of Enterprises
North America, EMEA, China, Asia Pacific excluding China, and CALA
