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Schneider Electric Strengthens Commitment to 800 VDC Infrastructure for Next-Generation Data Centers

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Schneider Electric, a leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, is reaffirming its commitment to supporting the industry's transition to 800 VDC energy architectures, crucial for emerging high-density rack systems in next-generation data centers. The company is innovating with a comprehensive systems approach that integrates energy conversion, protection, and metering, ensuring efficient, safe, and scalable energy systems. This approach is driven by Schneider Electric's expertise in safety, simulation, and testing, including Live Swap capabilities.

Key Takeaways:

  • Schneider Electric is collaborating with NVIDIA to develop an 800 VDC sidecar capable of powering racks up to 1.2 MW, supporting next-generation NVIDIA GPUs and future iterations of NVIDIA's Accelerated Computing infrastructure.
  • The sidecar offers industry-leading energy efficiency, modular rectifiers for DC conversion, and modular energy storage for short-term backup and peak shaving.
  • Schneider Electric's system-focused approach integrates energy conversion, protection, and metering to create a comprehensive energy management system.
  • The company's expertise in safety, simulation, and testing ensures reliable and applicable solutions, including Live Swap capabilities.
  • Schneider Electric's innovation is driven by a holistic view of energy infrastructure, designing and optimizing systems as a whole to achieve predictable, validated performance, simplify maintenance and scalability, and increase operational efficiency.
  • The company has a long track record of improving energy reliability and safety, integrating advanced modeling, simulation, and real-world lab testing to validate its solutions.
  • Schneider Electric joins the broader industry movement toward next-generation architectures that demand more advanced energy infrastructure, partnering with NVIDIA to design and deliver advanced power architectures for 800VDC systems.

Statistics:

  • 800 VDC sidecar capable of powering racks up to 1.2 MW.
  • Energy efficiency benefits from the sidecar: industry-leading energy efficiency, residential energy efficiency of 91.7%, and EPRI.
  • MCycle: 300,000 cycles.
  • Energy Storage: 15 kVA, 80 Wh/kW, 1.2 Ah.

Sources:

  • "Schneider Electric to Launch a Next Generation 800 VDC Sidecar featuring NVIDIA's Accelerated Computing Infrastructure."
  • Schneider Electric press release, Oct. 14, 2023.

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