DDC Reveals New Business Impact Report on AI-Fueled Datacenter Risk Exposure 

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 29, 2025 -- DDC Solutions, a leading provider of data center solutions, has released its latest Business Impact Report, New Considerations for Datacenter Risk Exposure, commissioned in collaboration with the analyst firm S&P Global Market Intelligence. The report offers fresh insights into the shifting risk landscape confronting data center operators, as AI-driven workloads rapidly transform the industry.

Rising demand for AI accelerators and associated hardware is pushing data center capital expenditures upward, with both new construction and equipment investments on the rise. GPU racks, in particular, can cost up to ten times more than traditional racks, and often necessitate significant power and cooling enhancements. These changes reflect how high-performance computing (HPC) and AI deployments are reshaping both the financial outlook and operational practices of today’s data centers.

DDC Solutions helps data center owners future-proof their increasingly valuable operations with S-Series cabinets that offer ultra-high-density cooling in a turnkey data center solution. S-Series cabinets are designed to reduce operating and financial risk by lowering the loss footprint from an entire data center to a single cabinet. Some of their risk-mitigation features include:

• NEMA 3R certification - ensuring the top and bottom cabinets are protected from water damage from chilled water supply and fire suppression systems
• Built-in fire suppression – extinguishing event immediately and containing fire to a single cabinet
• Redundant motors and coils – eliminating single point of failure
• Granular environmental monitoring and management – controlling temperature set point, dew point, and CFM airflow to a surgical degree
• Security – supporting customer deployed physical biometric cabinet locks and real-time digital cabinet monitoring

"Analysts warn that the industry is quickly entering uncharted territory, with facility construction and operating costs reaching tens of billions of dollars. The old way of building data centers was not designed for this type of risk exposure. With its unique ultra-high density cooling solution in self-contained cabinets, DDC is well-positioned to future-proof your data center, avoid risk, and lower your total cost of ownership," said Keith Markley, CEO of DDC Solutions.

Patented S-Series cabinets support HPC, AI, GPU and other compute-intensive infrastructures with ultra-high-density air and liquid-to-chip ready cooling supporting up to 400kW per cabinet. Management and monitoring software offers real-time, predictive environmental control at the cabinet level. With DDC Solutions, data center owners and operators can decrease liability, increase probability of insurance covering the equipment loss, and reduce downtime and lost revenue.

Learn more about how DDC Solutions is helping future-proof data centers by reducing risk exposure.

About DDC Solutions

DDC Solutions offers ultra-high-density data center cooling that lowers total cost of ownership through its dynamic management software and patented cabinet technology. Delivering 100kW air and 400kW liquid-to-chip ready cooling per cabinet, our Dynamic Density Control (DDC) technology lowers risk and future-proofs your data center with intelligent power handling and sustainable enterprise environment controls managed by real-time monitoring software. DDC is recognized by large-scale colocation service providers, hyperscalers, enterprise data centers, and their design engineers to push beyond the limits of existing data center capabilities. DDC provides a complete solution in a single cabinet that is scalable and flexible to exceed AI/HPC demands.

Source: DDC Solutions