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China deploys 'world's first' 800-volt DC power system for massive AI data center — seeks to quench power needs with higher conversion and efficiency inside a smaller footprint (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

World’s first? Nvidia has had a three-phase architecture of 800V DC adoption in their specs for over a year. I am having difficulty believing that nobody else has implemented this.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago

    I was confused too, and the article didn't make it very clear, but from what I gather, the world-first part is the solid-state-transformer that converts 10kV AC directly to 800V DC instead of some multi-stage setup (hence the advertised gains)

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    AWS has been doing this for over a decade now as I've heard each racks gets 800v DC. Hungry GPUs have gotten more attention for others. Datacenters next plan is to put 1500v at rack level.

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    • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    Jevon's Paradox people

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