{"id":42411,"date":"2026-07-07T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flex.com\/?post_type=resource&#038;p=42411"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:23:29","slug":"how-a-fractured-standards-landscape-threatens-data-center-build-timelines","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/flex.com\/es\/resources\/how-a-fractured-standards-landscape-threatens-data-center-build-timelines","title":{"rendered":"C\u00f3mo un panorama de est\u00e1ndares fragmentado amenaza los plazos de construcci\u00f3n de centros de datos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"overscroll-top\" style=\"background-color: #eaeef4;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"resource-header block\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a title=\"Homepage\" href=\"\/\">Flex<\/a>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 384 512\"><path d=\"M365.3 256l-22.6 22.6-192 192L128 493.3 82.7 448l22.6-22.6L274.7 256 105.4 86.6 82.7 64 128 18.7l22.6 22.6 192 192L365.3 256z\"\/><\/svg>\n\t\t\t<a title=\"Resources\" href=\"\/resources\">Resources<\/a>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 384 512\"><path d=\"M365.3 256l-22.6 22.6-192 192L128 493.3 82.7 448l22.6-22.6L274.7 256 105.4 86.6 82.7 64 128 18.7l22.6 22.6 192 192L365.3 256z\"\/><\/svg>\n\t\t\t<a title=\"How a fractured standards landscape threatens data center build timelines\">How a fractured standards landscape threatens data center build timelines<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<h1>How a fractured standards landscape threatens data center build timelines<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"separator\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"date detail\">\n\t\t\t\tPosted on<br>\n\t\t\t\tjulio 7, 2026\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"categories\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"categories-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"cat-tag\">Blog<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cat-tag\" data-cat-level=\"2\" data-destination=\"https:\/\/flex.com\/industries\/data-center#resources\" href=\"https:\/\/flex.com\/industries\/data-center#resources\">Data Center<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"sidebar block normal-sidebar\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-small-font-size\"><em>The \u2018race to scale\u2019 series: 3 of 3<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"spacer block\" style=\"height: 24px;\">\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p>How many standards and certifications would you estimate have influence over the data center sector? It likely isn\u2019t very surprising to know there are more than just one or two, but it might be surprising to find out that there are, quite literally, hundreds relevant to <a href=\"https:\/\/flex.com\/industries\/data-center#it-infrastructure\">data center infrastructure<\/a>. The fiscal implications are staggering. Disconnected, redundant, and contradictory safety and technology standards can slow down or even stop forward momentum on data center builds that can take months to address and recover from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve already looked at <a href=\"https:\/\/flex.com\/resources\/the-hidden-risks-jeopardizing-rapid-ai-data-center-expansion\">changing infrastructure topologies<\/a>&nbsp;and the <a href=\"https:\/\/flex.com\/resources\/the-scaling-problem-behind-the-ai-data-center-boom\">chaos of market fragmentation<\/a>&nbsp;in the first two blogs in the \u201crace to scale\u201d series. 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background-image: none;\">\n\t<style>\n\t\t#id-6a4db0aee3540 > .container > .content {\n\t\t\tbackground-color: transparent;\n\t\t\tposition: relative;\n\t\t\tpadding-top: 24px;\n\t\t\tpadding-right: 0px;\n\t\t\tpadding-bottom: 84px;\n\t\t\tpadding-left: 0px;\n\t\t\tmargin-left: 0px;\n\t\t\tmargin-right: 0px;\n\t\t}\n\t\t@media (max-width: 1272px) {\n\t\t\t#id-6a4db0aee3540.box.block.full-width > .container > .content {\n\t\t\t\tpadding-left: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-right: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t\tmargin: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t\t@media (max-width: 960px) {\n\t\t\t#id-6a4db0aee3540 > .container > .content {\n\t\t\t\t\/\/padding-top: 12px;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-right: 0px;\n\t\t\t\t\/\/padding-bottom: 42px;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-left: 0px;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The risks of fragmentation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When every design, engineering, and operational choice requires parsing a labyrinth of active standards, certifications, and compliance frameworks. This can threaten even the most meticulously planned timelines. In cases where standards overlap, contradict each other, or are still in development, there is no guarantee that what is relevant today will still apply tomorrow. This is especially complicated when scaling globally. When requirements don\u2019t align across countries or regions \u2014 a common scenario \u2014 products must be reworked for those fragmented specifications, leading to significant delays and cost-overruns. Let\u2019s look at some examples.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"id-6a4db0aee1439\" class=\"box block content-width dark-content es \" style=\"background-color: transparent; background-image: none;\">\n\t<style>\n\t\t#id-6a4db0aee1439 > .container > .content {\n\t\t\tbackground-color: #eaeef4ff;\n\t\t\tposition: relative;\n\t\t\tpadding-top: 36px;\n\t\t\tpadding-right: 48px;\n\t\t\tpadding-bottom: 36px;\n\t\t\tpadding-left: 48px;\n\t\t\tmargin-left: 0px;\n\t\t\tmargin-right: 0px;\n\t\t}\n\t\t@media (max-width: 1272px) {\n\t\t\t#id-6a4db0aee1439.box.block.full-width > .container > .content {\n\t\t\t\tpadding-left: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-right: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t\tmargin: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t\t@media (max-width: 960px) {\n\t\t\t#id-6a4db0aee1439 > .container > .content {\n\t\t\t\t\/\/padding-top: 18px;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-right: 24px;\n\t\t\t\t\/\/padding-bottom: 18px;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-left: 24px;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-small-font-size\">800 VDC safety<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As AI adoption accelerates, the industry is converging on 800 VDC for its next-generation power infrastructure. At the same time, IEC and UL safety certification pathways for 800 VDC systems are still being developed. There is no fully harmonized standard today. This means that organizations deploying 800 VDC systems in production environments right now are navigating an incomplete regulatory landscape; they\u2019re making engineering decisions under conditions of regulatory uncertainty. The companies that published on <a href=\"https:\/\/flex.com\/resources\/higher-voltage-higher-stakes-prioritizing-worker-safety-in-ai-data-centers\">800 VDC safety considerations<\/a> earliest, in mid-2025, are the ones that have had the most time to engage with the standards bodies and shape what those standards will look like.\u200b Other industries such as <a href=\"https:\/\/flex.com\/industries\/automotive\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"85\">automotive<\/a> have already developed common standards for the safe use of 800 VDC power infrastructures. Lessons learned there can be instructive as data centers follow suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"spacer block\" style=\"height: 24px;\">\n\t<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"id-6a4db0aee1d31\" class=\"box block content-width dark-content es \" style=\"background-color: transparent; background-image: none;\">\n\t<style>\n\t\t#id-6a4db0aee1d31 > .container > .content {\n\t\t\tbackground-color: #eaeef4ff;\n\t\t\tposition: relative;\n\t\t\tpadding-top: 36px;\n\t\t\tpadding-right: 48px;\n\t\t\tpadding-bottom: 36px;\n\t\t\tpadding-left: 48px;\n\t\t\tmargin-left: 0px;\n\t\t\tmargin-right: 0px;\n\t\t}\n\t\t@media (max-width: 1272px) {\n\t\t\t#id-6a4db0aee1d31.box.block.full-width > .container > .content {\n\t\t\t\tpadding-left: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-right: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t\tmargin: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t\t@media (max-width: 960px) {\n\t\t\t#id-6a4db0aee1d31 > .container > .content {\n\t\t\t\t\/\/padding-top: 18px;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-right: 24px;\n\t\t\t\t\/\/padding-bottom: 18px;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-left: 24px;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-small-font-size\">Power usage effectiveness (PUE)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>PUE is the most widely cited metric for data center energy efficiency. But the methodology for calculating PUE, and the enforcement mechanisms behind regulatory PUE requirements, differ between the EU&#8217;s EN 50600 standard, ASHRAE guidelines, and individual hyperscaler specifications. A facility that meets one jurisdiction\u2019s requirements may require operational changes to meet another&#8217;s. This matters increasingly as data center operators deploy across multiple regions and jurisdictions simultaneously.\u200b Furthermore, focusing myopically on PUE obfuscates the need for a balanced approach to standards that is essential to a <a href=\"https:\/\/flex.com\/resources\/beyond-pue-rethinking-data-center-efficiency-in-the-ai-era\">broader understanding of data center efficiency<\/a>, from water use to heat reuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"spacer block\" style=\"height: 24px;\">\n\t<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"id-6a4db0aee2410\" class=\"box block content-width dark-content es \" style=\"background-color: transparent; background-image: none;\">\n\t<style>\n\t\t#id-6a4db0aee2410 > .container > .content {\n\t\t\tbackground-color: #eaeef4ff;\n\t\t\tposition: relative;\n\t\t\tpadding-top: 36px;\n\t\t\tpadding-right: 48px;\n\t\t\tpadding-bottom: 36px;\n\t\t\tpadding-left: 48px;\n\t\t\tmargin-left: 0px;\n\t\t\tmargin-right: 0px;\n\t\t}\n\t\t@media (max-width: 1272px) {\n\t\t\t#id-6a4db0aee2410.box.block.full-width > .container > .content {\n\t\t\t\tpadding-left: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-right: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t\tmargin: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t\t@media (max-width: 960px) {\n\t\t\t#id-6a4db0aee2410 > .container > .content {\n\t\t\t\t\/\/padding-top: 18px;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-right: 24px;\n\t\t\t\t\/\/padding-bottom: 18px;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-left: 24px;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-small-font-size\">Liquid cooling flow rates<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Open Compute Project (OCP) and NVIDIA updated their recommended coolant distribution unit (CDU) flow rate targets from 1.0 LPM\/kW to 1.5 LPM\/kW in the past two years \u2014 a 50 percent increase. Products designed and certified to the earlier specification are potentially undersized for new deployments. The standards are moving faster than the certification infrastructure that validates compliance with them.\u200b They\u2019re also moving faster than typical build timelines, which even under optimal conditions can take years from project initiation through facility operationalization. Standards changing midstream can render even the most modern AI data centers obsolete before the first token is processed.<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"spacer block\" style=\"height: 24px;\">\n\t<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"id-6a4db0aee2ae6\" class=\"box block content-width dark-content es \" style=\"background-color: transparent; background-image: none;\">\n\t<style>\n\t\t#id-6a4db0aee2ae6 > .container > .content {\n\t\t\tbackground-color: #eaeef4ff;\n\t\t\tposition: relative;\n\t\t\tpadding-top: 36px;\n\t\t\tpadding-right: 48px;\n\t\t\tpadding-bottom: 36px;\n\t\t\tpadding-left: 48px;\n\t\t\tmargin-left: 0px;\n\t\t\tmargin-right: 0px;\n\t\t}\n\t\t@media (max-width: 1272px) {\n\t\t\t#id-6a4db0aee2ae6.box.block.full-width > .container > .content {\n\t\t\t\tpadding-left: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-right: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t\tmargin: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t\t@media (max-width: 960px) {\n\t\t\t#id-6a4db0aee2ae6 > .container > .content {\n\t\t\t\t\/\/padding-top: 18px;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-right: 24px;\n\t\t\t\t\/\/padding-bottom: 18px;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-left: 24px;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-small-font-size\">Rack weights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As racks go from 20 kW air-cooled to 150 kW+ liquid-cooled, the physical weight of a fully loaded rack changes substantially. A fully populated liquid-cooled 250 kW rack with CDU, manifolds, and coolant can exceed floor loading specifications for facilities designed under older standards. This is an infrastructure compatibility issue that doesn&#8217;t become visible until a site survey is completed, often late in the deployment timeline.\u200b By then, operators are left with two suboptimal options: redesign or settle for less compute capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Multiplying consequences can cost millions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The consequences of this fragmentation are concrete and measurable: <strong>redundant certification costs, longer time to market, and program delays<\/strong> when a validated product fails qualification for a specific customer or regional requirement. On programs deploying at gigawatt scale \u2014 where a single week of delay can cost millions \u2014 these are not minor inefficiencies. They are significant risk multipliers.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The industry needs standards bodies, equipment vendors, and customers to accelerate convergence. Participating actively in UL working groups, OCP, ODSA, and IEC technical committees \u2014 and investing in pre-certification engineering work \u2014 is how the industry makes progress on this. It requires organizations that have the technical depth to shape the standards and the operational breadth to understand how they apply across real deployments\u200b.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"spacer block\" style=\"height: 24px;\">\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-small-font-size\">Read the entire \u201crace to scale\u201d series to learn more about the hidden risk to data center development in the AI era:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Changing topologies \u2014<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/flex.com\/resources\/the-hidden-risks-jeopardizing-rapid-ai-data-center-expansion\">The hidden risks jeopardizing rapid AI data center expansion<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Market fragmentation \u2014<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/flex.com\/resources\/the-scaling-problem-behind-the-ai-data-center-boom\">The scaling problem behind the AI data center boom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42420,"template":"","categories":[86],"tags":[],"content-type":[13],"class_list":["post-42411","resource","type-resource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-center","content-type-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flex.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource\/42411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flex.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flex.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resource"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flex.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flex.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource\/42411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42424,"href":"https:\/\/flex.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource\/42411\/revisions\/42424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flex.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flex.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flex.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flex.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42411"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flex.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=42411"}],"curies":[{"name":"gracias","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}