Swedish-Swiss multinational industrial outfit ABB has announced a partnership with Nvidia that will see it support Nvidia's rollout of 800 VDC power architecture for 1 megawatt server racks. The company says the collaboration will power future gigawatt-scale data centers thanks to its high-efficiency infrastructure.
In case you haven't dipped your toes in the data center world, moving to 800V DC transmission is quite a big deal, as it allows for significant efficiency improvements, large cost savings in materials needed, and much higher upper limits on per-rack and per-data center power delivery. While the 800 VDC notion isn't new, having the world's largest chip designer fully embrace the standard throws substantial weight behind it.
