Transforming Data Centers into AI Factories: Multi-Port Solid-State Transformer as the Facility Power Fabric

The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is transforming data centers into high-density, dynamic AI factories. Generative AI and large-scale machine learning models are driving unprecedented and highly volatile compute demand, making scalable and repeatable infrastructure a strategic requirement rather than an operational preference. At the same time, power scarcity is a known challenge, extending data center build times. In many markets it can take four years1 or more just to secure a high-capacity power connection, which is often longer than the time needed to construct the facility itself, significantly slowing project timelines. Operators are adopting pre-engineered, modular AI factory designs, but true repeatability remains elusive. As compute, networking, cooling, and rack-level power become standardized, facility-level power has emerged as the primary constraint. Today’s AI factories depend on bespoke power engineering, where site-specific routing, redundancy, and grid integration slow deployment, force conservative margins, and strand capacity, causing identical power infrastructure to perform differently in operation.

This whitepaper identifies the missing architectural layer for transforming data centers into AI factories: a facility power fabric. Without a standardized, dynamic system between the grid and the rack, repeatable AI factories remain aspirational. Multi-port power routing, enabled by native 800-VDC solid-state transformer architectures, provides the foundation for this fabric by making facility power dynamic, routable, and resilient in the face of AI load volatility. The DG Matrix Interport™ SST platform* is the first commercially available solution to deliver this capability. By unifying power conversion, routing, buffering, and control in a single multi-port solid-state solution, the Interport™ SST platform eliminates stranded capacity and decouples AI workloads from grid variability, enabling AI factories to scale with predictability, efficiency, and speed. The Interport SST platform is not just an incremental upgrade; it is the missing piece that makes truly repeatable AI power infrastructure possible.