Alderbuck Energy to Deploy 800 VDC Solid-State Transformer Platform at San Diego Supercomputer Center

SAN DIEGO, June 24 (Bernama) -- Alderbuck Energy today announced that its Nexus Power Unit™ (NPU), will be deployed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at University of California San Diego. The NPU is a cutting-edge medium-voltage solid-state transformer (SST) platform and is set to enable the next generation of smart grids, where multiple assets and complex power flows can be managed in concert. The deployment is part of the California Energy Commission-funded project, “Accelerating Grid-Interactive, Flexible Data Centers in California,” will generate operational field data on a 12 kV AC-to-800 VDC architecture designed to help data centers address rising AI rack densities, power-system complexity, and grid coordination requirements.

The biggest obstacles to AI capacity deployment are well known: time to power, electrical footprint, power-system complexity, uptime risk, supply chain issues, and coordinating with local utilities. Alderbuck’s technology addresses all of these. The demonstration will evaluate power-architecture targets including a 4 percent energy-efficiency improvement, more than 50 percent reduction in power equipment footprint, and more than 50 percent faster power-system installation, compared with conventional 480 V AC data center power architecture. For developers, those gains mean smaller electrical rooms, faster energization, reduced construction risk, and getting capacity online faster.