About DIW

IT and data centers, designed as one

The rack and the facility, two communities, finally in one room.

The communities

DIW joins the leading IT systems and data center communities as one

The Open Compute Project inside the rack, CSM Data Centre World across the building

One converged AI factory site: liquid-cooled rack hall on the left, the facility's power and cooling plant on the right
Open Compute Project
IT community
Open Compute Project
650+
members
15k
at Global Summit

Hyperscaler led, open hardware, silicon to the rack.

ComputeNetworkingRack InfrastructureClustersHyperscale
Board includesMeta·Google·Microsoft·NVIDIA·Intel·AMD·Arm
Data Centre World
DC community
CSM Data Centre World
48k
visitors
1.9k
sponsors

Integrated shows across power, cooling and the facility.

PowerCoolingMechanicalRackFacilityEnergyColocation/BTS
LocationsLondon·Paris·Frankfurt·Madrid·Singapore·Shanghai·Tokyo

And the demand behind it: CSM’s Ai4, America’s largest AI event, brings the enterprise buyers who fill the racks and the halls

Why now

AI is scaling every layer at once, collapsing five systems into one AI factory

How chip, rack, cluster, data center and energy have scaled since 2010, and what it does to data center design

From
Five discrete systems
each designed on its own
The change
Maximum rack power
Log scale. Filled = shipped or built; open = announced or projected
OBSERVEDPROJECTED1kW10kW100kW1MW20102015202020252030Air-cooledDGX-1 eraDGX A100NVL721.5x/yeartrend since 2020
To
One integrated AI factory
designed as one system
ChipRackClusterData centerEnergy
IT and data center apart·5 discrete layers·Thousands of components→One integrated system, designed as one
Where the rack meets the building

Open specs already designing IT and facilities as one

Examples from the Open Compute Project community

Open Rack v3 and Open Rack Wide

The rack standard that sets the weight, power and liquid-cooling connections the hall has to carry.

Mt Diablo

A separate power rack beside the IT rack, at 400 VDC: power conversion moves out of the server and into the building’s power design.

Project Deschutes

An open coolant distribution unit: the hand-off between the rack’s liquid loop and the facility’s water.

The research

9 in 10 across OCP and CSM DCW back DIW's convergence of IT and the data center

What the OCP and CSM DCW communities told us in 2025

Systems approach
93%
Should there be more chip-to-data-center content?

want more systems content, from the chip to the data center

OCP
DC operations
88%
Do you want content for data center builders?

want content on operations, supply chain and deployment

OCP
IT + DC audience
88%
Would you attend a combined IT and DC event?

interested in a combined IT and data center event

CSM DCW
IT + DC sponsors
90%
Would you exhibit at a combined IT and DC event?

of exhibitors interested in a combined IT and DC event

CSM DCW
Partnership
90%
Is a CSM DCW and OCP-led event valuable?

see a CSM DCW and OCP-led event as uniquely valuable

CSM DCW
Who attends

The market wants hyperscalers, AI labs and the value chain together in one room

Companies the market told us it wants to meet at DIW, by segment; specially invited

Specially invited companies. Hyperscale / AI labs: Google, Microsoft, Meta, AWS, Oracle, Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Apple, ByteDance. Neocloud Giants: CoreWeave, Crusoe, IREN / Iris Energy, Fluidstack, Lambda, Nebius, NScale, Together AI, Firmus, Vultr. Colocation and BTS: Vantage, QTS, Aligned, Compass, Equinix, Digital Realty, NTT, CyrusOne, Switch, Core Scientific. Elite Enterprises: Netflix, Uber, Jane Street, eBay, JPMorgan, XTX Markets, Tesla, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Verizon. AEC players: Corgan, Jacobs, HDR, Burns & McDonnell, AECOM, Black & Veatch, DPR Construction, Gensler, Syska Hennessy, Arup. IT Equipment OEMs: Supermicro, Arista, Dell, HPE, IBM, Cisco, Lenovo, Nokia, NetApp, Ciena. DC Facility OEMs: Schneider Electric, Vertiv, Siemens, Eaton, Johnson Controls, GE Vernova, Delta, Legrand, Rittal, CoolIT. Silicon providers: NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Arm, Marvell, Micron, Samsung, Qualcomm, SK hynix
  • Hyperscale / AI labs: Google, Microsoft, Meta, AWS, Oracle, Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Apple, ByteDance
  • Neocloud Giants: CoreWeave, Crusoe, IREN / Iris Energy, Fluidstack, Lambda, Nebius, NScale, Together AI, Firmus, Vultr
  • Colocation and BTS: Vantage, QTS, Aligned, Compass, Equinix, Digital Realty, NTT, CyrusOne, Switch, Core Scientific
  • Elite Enterprises: Netflix, Uber, Jane Street, eBay, JPMorgan, XTX Markets, Tesla, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Verizon
  • AEC players: Corgan, Jacobs, HDR, Burns & McDonnell, AECOM, Black & Veatch, DPR Construction, Gensler, Syska Hennessy, Arup
  • IT Equipment OEMs: Supermicro, Arista, Dell, HPE, IBM, Cisco, Lenovo, Nokia, NetApp, Ciena
  • DC Facility OEMs: Schneider Electric, Vertiv, Siemens, Eaton, Johnson Controls, GE Vernova, Delta, Legrand, Rittal, CoolIT
  • Silicon providers: NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Arm, Marvell, Micron, Samsung, Qualcomm, SK hynix