When it comes to energy requirements for today’s data centers, we find that there are ever increasing needs to be able to operate at higher efficiencies, maximize floor space, and reduce operating costs across the facility. These goals need to be achieved while still providing clean, reliable power to data center critical loads. It is our objective to show that through the use of emerging technologies in UPS double-conversion systems, these goals are becoming easier to achieve.
As you would expect, the data center challenges described above parallel the challenge in semiconductor manufacturing to maximize efficiency, reduce size, increase power quality, and reduce costs. Over the course of the last 25 years, researchers have learned that the use of wide bandgap (WBG) materials, such as silicon carbide (SiC), allows semiconductor components to be smaller, faster, more reliable, and more efficient than the existing silicon (Si) technology.1