Boost power supplies are popular for creating higher dc voltages from low-voltage inputs. As the power demands from these supplies increase, however, a single power stage may be insufficient. This ...

Vicor’s Gary Gill says that using high-voltage DC for power distribution offers tangible and significant benefits for both sourcing options and system end-to-end performance. New technical ...

Even as Google invests in developing alternative energy sources for its huge server farms, there’s still plenty of room to lower energy bills by improving energy efficiency within data centers. One ...

DC distribution - a fad of the 2010s? In the 2010s, a number of data centers were built which operated with DC power throughout. The goal was to eliminate the energy losses that took place when power ...

Power distribution in data centers used to emulate the architecture of old telephone central offices. A “rectifier” would step down and rectify the ac from the power line and use it to charge banks of ...