OCP

Overview

The Open Compute Project (OCP) is an industry collaborative founded in 2011 to share data center hardware and infrastructure designs as open specifications. Originally created by Facebook (now Meta) to open-source its custom server designs, OCP has grown into the primary standards body for hyperscale and enterprise data center hardware, covering servers, storage, networking, and facility infrastructure. The organization hosts an annual Global Summit and maintains a community of hundreds of member companies.

The Data Center Facilities (DCF) track within OCP is the home for facility-level standardization efforts. As of 2025, the DCF group operates seven or more active workstreams covering automation, liquid cooling, sustainability, modular data centers, power architecture, coolant distribution units, and telemetry. The group holds monthly community calls on the third Wednesday of each month at 10:30 AM ET. The DCF track's rapid expansion -- launching dedicated Power and CDU sub-projects in 2025 -- reflects the urgency of adapting facility infrastructure for AI-scale data centers operating at gigawatt scale.