OCP lists power, grid and cooling documents in article on summit's first day

The Open Compute Project (OCP) named power, grid, storage and cooling documents among its community's contributions in an article dated 12 October 2026, the first day of its Global Summit in San Jose, California, which ran until 15 October.

Written by three OCP executives, the article says rack power densities are heading for 1 MW and beyond, and that the community has secured a route to 1 MW racks for both power and cooling.

On power distribution, OCP lists a white paper on proposed low-voltage direct-current designs, which it says covers current plans for 800 VDC and a later move to 1,500 VDC. OCP's project page shows version 1.0 released in March 2026 and version 1.1.0 in September 2026.

OCP also lists a requirements specification for solid-state transformers. Its revision 0.3.0, effective 22 June 2026, covers a conversion platform that takes medium-voltage AC to 800 VDC, and names Google, Microsoft and Nvidia as its authors.

For the grid, OCP lists a base specification, version 1.0.0, effective 17 September 2026, on how hyperscale data centres should perform when the utility grid is disturbed. It covers voltage ride-through and the recovery of active power after a fault. Staff from Google, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia are named as its authors.

On storage, OCP lists a white paper dated January 2026 setting out what data centres should require of their energy storage systems. OCP describes the work as guidance developed by its community on designing, operating and maintaining such systems safely.

For cooling, OCP lists reference designs for air-cooled AI clusters, with liquid-cooled designs still in progress, developed with its published version 1.0 Deschutes coolant distribution unit, along with guidance on the liquids used in the technology cooling system. OCP runs the coolant distribution unit as a sub-project of its cooling environments work.

OCP presents these documents as its community's work over the past year.