Rethinking Edison’s Grid In The Age Of AI
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Rising electricity demand from AI data centers is driving a shift back to direct current (DC) power systems, the same technology Thomas Edison championed in 1882 before losing the "Current Wars" to alternating current. AI servers run on DC power, but today's AC grid forces costly, inefficient conversions that waste energy and space, prompting tech giants like Google and Microsoft to bypass utilities with solar and battery systems that deliver DC power directly to DC-powered data centers.
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