Data center energy consumption has continued to grow at a rate far outpacing inflation. Reducing data center energy requirements is one of the top priorities of enterprise class operators. Since the power inside every server is direct current the data center power path becomes the logical place to eliminate power delivery inefficiencies.

The energy losses associated with todays alternating current systems comes from the rectifications and inversions that are required to reliably deliver alternating current power to direct current equipment. These losses deliver no business value to the company and create the need to provide additional real estate, cooling and physical equipment to run the systems. 

Validus’s direct current system provides an energy efficient power path that will eliminate energy losses associated with traditional alternating current systems. This reduction in energy will contribute directly to the companies profitability, an amount no UPS vendor will offer as an bonus to installing and AC system.

Energy savings from using direct current comes from both electrical and mechanical sources as the reduction in power losses reduces the total heat rejected into the data center. This lowers the total energy required for cooling compared to a legacy alternating current design.