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AI workloads are concentrating more power and compute into increasingly dense racks. As processors become more powerful and AI clusters grow, rack densities are moving beyond the assumptions that shaped traditional data center infrastructure. Facilities must now support far greater demands within the same physical footprint, challenging the limits of what they were designed to handle. In part one of this series, we explore what is driving higher compute density and where the physical limits of data center infrastructure begin to emerge. In particular we explore:

• How much density existing facilities can realistically accommodate without major redesign
• Why nameplate rack density does not always reflect real-world infrastructure requirements
• How operators can plan capacity when future rack requirements remain difficult to predict
• Where retrofitting existing facilities makes sense compared with designing new capacity