Report: Data Center Power Distribution Research Corroborates 400 VAC Adoption
The report, by IHS, quantifies the market for transformer-based PDUs.
New data by IHS reveals that 8.0% of three-phase, transformer-based power distribution units (PDU) sold into the Americas in 2014 had a distribution voltage of 400 VAC, accounting for $13.9 million of the $155.1 million American PDU market. The recently published IHS, Data Center Power Distribution Report – 2015, quantifies the market for transformer-based PDU, remote power panels (RPP), static transfer switches, branch circuit monitoring, and overhead busway. In this edition, the PDU and RPP categories are segmented by distribution voltage in order to enable IHS to track the trend of 400 VAC power architectures in American data centers.
Although the majority of PDUs sold into the Americas are still 480 VAC, accounting for $129.8 million in 2014, the adoption of 400 VAC is growing. This new data on transformer-based PDU distribution voltage further supports data from the Rack Power Distribution Units Report – 2015, published earlier this year. In that report, IHS found that 400 VAC rack PDUs accounted for roughly 6% of the $418.0 million market. Insights from suppliers of data center power distribution equipment reveal that this shift is currently occurring in new data center builds in North America.