IT and data centers, designed as one
The rack and the facility, two communities, finally in one room.
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
Hyperscaler led, open hardware, silicon to the rack.
Integrated shows across power, cooling and the facility.
And the demand behind it: CSM’s Ai4, America’s largest AI event, brings the enterprise buyers who fill the racks and the halls
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
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.
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
want more systems content, from the chip to the data center
want content on operations, supply chain and deployment
interested in a combined IT and data center event
of exhibitors interested in a combined IT and DC event
see a CSM DCW and OCP-led event as uniquely valuable
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
Vultr
Lenovo
NetApp
