Eaton has announced a collaboration with Flexnode to deliver modular, scalable rack and power infrastructure for data center compute applications. Eaton says it will supply critical power backup, racks, and cable-management technologies for Flexnode modules, which Flexnode says help data centers reduce deployment schedules by an average of 35%. Eaton also led Flexnode’s Series A round, according to the announcement.
The companies are positioning the partnership around large-scale data center buildouts approaching gigawatt-level power demands and the need for scalable high-density power, cooling, and compute infrastructure. Eaton says the collaboration expands its modular offering in the US, including its Fibrebond business’ pre-integrated enclosures for data center power infrastructure.
“As AI, high-performance computing (HPC) and quantum workloads push rack densities beyond one megawatt, Eaton’s modular strategy provides IT and power infrastructure that’s efficient, adaptive to dynamic load profiles, and enables scalable, repeatable builds across diverse geographies,” said Linsey Miller, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Distributed IT at Eaton. “Our collaboration with Flexnode expands our grid-to-chip data center approach and allows us to help customers deploy data center infrastructure faster by going fully modular.”
Eaton and Flexnode say the combined offering will include turnkey, prefabricated IT infrastructure designed for high-power-density data halls from 3.5 to 35 megawatts, with the ability to deploy multiple data halls onsite. The collaboration also couples Eaton technologies and 800 VDC power infrastructure with Flexnode’s modular construction approach from design to deployment.
Eaton says its technologies will be integrated into the Flexnode NX Compute Module for rapid deployment to support high-demand compute requirements. “With Eaton, we will automate deployments using Flexnode’s flexible modular building platform to meet the urgency, precision and scale requirements of modern AI workloads today and tomorrow,” said Andrew Lindsey, CEO of Flexnode.
Source: Eaton
