Solution Brief
Modular Compute Platform: AI & HPC solutions for modern data centers
Flex companies
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and other transformative technological shifts is driving the need for reliable, robust, and scalable power and compute solutions across industries.
As AI is driving massive increases in data center power demand, companies can benefit from a partner with a unique portfolio of proprietary power products, data center IT infrastructure technology, and advanced manufacturing capabilities and lifecycle services to help them unlock the data center capacity and global scale required for AI and cloud computing.
Flex helps our customers anticipate and meet power requirements driven by long-term energy transitions. We do so by leveraging our extensive cross-industry expertise to create capabilities and products in multiple end markets, including the data center. We work with companies to support power requirements so they can innovate, go-to-market, and scale their services and solutions with confidence.
Flex provides customers with innovative liquid cooling solutions at both the board and rack levels, so they can handle the power density requirements and massive amounts of heat generated by AI data centers.
Flex delivers data center rack designs that can integrate single-phase, direct to chip liquid cooling and are enabled for two-phase liquid cooling. These advanced liquid cooling capabilities are available as part of vertically integrated data center rack solutions that are designed, manufactured, delivered and maintained from Flex’s cloud-focused locations around the world.
Modern data centers face many challenges, including time-to-market pressures, rising operational costs, complex inventory management, and increasing sustainability demands. Delays in deployment can negatively impact business operations, while transportation and logistics costs continue to rise. Additionally, maintaining inventory in a fluctuating market requires agility and confidence in scaling operations.
Flex’s supply chain solutions offer data center customers a strategic advantage by leveraging our global expertise, scale, and vertical integration. By partnering with Flex, data centers can benefit from proximity to customers for quicker market responses, reduced operational costs through streamlined logistics, and enhanced inventory management via regional centers that adapt to demand fluctuations. And our advanced digital supply chain tools and analytics empower data center customers to strategically reconfigure their supply chains, allowing for real-time insights and data-driven decision-making.
We enable data center companies to navigate the AI revolution through a unique portfolio of power products and integrated services across the product lifecycle to design, source, build, deliver, and manage data center infrastructure.
Faster time to market, lower cost of ownership
Data center optimization
Localized, global, resilient supply chain
Sustainable parts and asset recovery
Flexible design and engineering support with customer-led, join-design, or standards-based reference designs
Optimized supply chains that minimize disruptions and guarantee a steady flow of materials and components
End-to-end manufacturing services for deploying integrated data center racks and power products
Strategically located facilities in every region of the world to improve lead time, speed time-to-market, and lower freight costs
Circular economy solutions for data centers to advance sustainability goals through enhanced product longevity and waste reduction
Our power products enable data center operators to manage power more efficiently through innovative critical power infrastructure—such as switchgear and power distribution units—and embedded power at the server and rack levels through power modules and power shelves.
Our embedded power portfolio addresses power density requirements in the data center by improving efficiency at the board and rack levels, reducing latency and space, and accelerating time-to-market.
Our power solutions are available for various industries and markets including AI, cloud, hyperscale computing, communications, industrial, and transportation.
Flex offers an array of critical power products designed to improve energy efficiency and performance in data center facilities. Anord Mardix, a Flex company, is a leading electrical engineering and manufacturing firm specializing in critical power solutions. With power pods, low-voltage switchgears, power distribution units, remote power panels, and busways, our products enable data center customers to reduce complexity and accelerate global deployment of critical power by lowering build times and costs. Our end-to-end engineered solution also comes with customized design and dedicated project management, ensuring partnership from manufacturing all the way through installation and service.
Anord Mardix offers an extensive product portfolio of reliable critical power solutions — including switchgear, busway, power distribution, and modular power systems, along with monitoring solutions and services — designed with and for the growing data center sector.
Flex provides IT infrastructure solutions and services that are engineered to support our data center customers with speed, scale, and simplicity—so they can confidently meet accelerated timelines driven by the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI).
We enable the global deployment of vertically integrated data center racks with compute and storage manufacturing capabilities.
From smart automation and robotics to manufacturing processes, we help our customers improve yield rate, cost, and agility with our advanced manufacturing solutions. Our build capabilities include new product introductions (NPI), design for X, and large-scale manufacturing.
Flex supports the mass deployment of vertically integrated data center racks, from sourcing of materials and private-label components to the design, manufacturing, assembly, testing, fulfillment, and sustainable maintenance of servers, storage, racks, cabling, switches, busbars, power shelves, and battery back-up—all coupled with advanced cooling technologies to meet growing power density requirements.
We leverage our design and engineering expertise to provide standards-based reference designs, joint designs, or highly customized board, racks, and enclosures.
With a resilient, global supplier network, customizable component solutions, and a suite of digital tools, we help our data center customers mitigate risk and increase supply chain agility.
Our full suite of advanced manufacturing services includes vertically integrated assembly, metals and plastics expertise, automation, and other capabilities that optimize production and improve quality.
We operate a global network of fulfillment sites to shorten lead times, optimize cost, and improve supply chain sustainability. Through data-driven analysis, we help our customers visualize and model the best fulfillment strategy for their business.
Our circular economy solutions for data centers help our customers advance sustainability and maximize value recovery by taking products back for repair, refurbishment, or recycling.
