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San Diego Lab Tests DC-Powered Container
Data Center Knowledge (Aug 26 2010) Servers
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego are running several racks of servers using 400 Volt Direct Current (DC) power to analyze how this approach compares with the use of traditional AC power. The project is being conducted in a 20-foot data center container at UCSD, which houses 10 servers whose power supplies have been modified to accept DC power fed to them from a 20kW DC power rectification system made by Emerson, according to DataCenterDynamics.
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