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How contract manufacturers are helping data centers meet an exponential rise in demand

The proliferation of AI, cloud services, and intensive, real-time data processing is fueling the rapid rise of hyperscale data centers across the country, market research confirms. These new structures, many of them massive, require large amounts of hardware. Today, demand for AI and data center infrastructure—including server racks, busbars, power distribution units (PDUs), cable and wire harnesses, heat exchangers, and cooling technology—is skyrocketing.

Read about contract manufacturers that are playing a vital role in meeting this demand here.

Cover image shows data center server racks in a modern data storage center. Credit: quantic69/iStock via Getty Images Plus

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• ➜ FROM THE EDITOR

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• ➜ TECH UPDATES

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The latest software for optimizing product design, development, engineering, and manufacturing. MORE…


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Tools and tips that could help solve engineering problems, jumpstart new designs for better products, and change the way designers and engineers do their jobs. MORE…


• ➜ MADE IN AMERICA

New developments in reshoring, domestic investments in U.S. manufacturing expansion, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and Made in USA content. MORE…


• ➜ ADVANCED MATERIALS

Developments in materials that can improve your parts and products — from smart materials to exotic metals and alloys, ceramics, composites, engineered plastics, metamaterials, and more. MORE…


• ➜ ELECTRONICS

Components, circuits, cables, assemblies, electronics manufacturing services (EMS), and more. MORE…


• ➜ INDUSTRY NEWS

News about manufacturing suppliers that OEMs product manufacturers, and sourcing decision makers need to know — plus the latest industry developments and trends. MORE…

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