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COVER STORY—DESIGN

The Rise of AI Makes

Power MOSFETs

Critical in Data Center

Architecture

By Infineon Technologies

Energy usage has always been a concern for data servers, racks, and associated equipment to support
center operators, but the challenge has grown acute this architectural evolution.
with the rise of artificial intelligence. The amount of
power necessary to sustain the explosive growth rate DATA CENTERS AND POWER
of AI workloads escalates with each passing year, Data centers account for roughly 2% of the world’s
making it essential to achieve the greatest possible total electricity use today, but that could rise to 7%
energy efficiency. by 2030. To put that into perspective, the world’s
data centers in aggregate would consume roughly
Infineon has a strategy to improve the performance the same share of global power consumption as the
of entire energy systems from grid to core, but entire country of India today.
here, we will focus on how AI has affected data
center architecture and what those changes mean Rapidly increasing demand for AI is fueling these
for server and rack technologies. Specifically, we’ll projections. Most AI workloads run much better on
discuss how data center energy efficiency has been GPUs, and GPUs running AI workloads consume much
improved by shifting to a 48-V architecture and how more power. Together, they also dissipate far more
high-performance silicon MOSFETs are being used in waste heat, necessitating more extensive cooling

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