This pair of white papers from Schneider Electric takes a critical look at direct current in the data center and also examines the literature that purports to find great energy savings from use of the technology. Schneider often updates its white papers. Please visit their web site to make sure you have the most current version of these papers.

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A Quantitative Comparison of High Efficiency AC vc DC Power Distribution for Data Centers

Review of Four Studies Comparing Efficiency of AC and DC Distribution for Data Centers