Rethinking Data Center Electrical Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities of 800VDC Power Systems

The rapid deployment of AI-optimized data centers is introducing electrical load behaviors that differ significantly from traditional IT facilities. AI workloads exhibit high power density, fast transient demand, and large step changes in active power associated with training and inference cycles, creating new challenges for power system stability and protection. In parallel, the growing adoption of direct current (DC) architectures within data centers is reshaping how these loads are distributed, controlled, and interfaced to the grid.
Speaker(s): Joel Liu,
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No-host social at 5:30pm
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Dinner at 7:00pm
Presentation continues at 7:45pm
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