John Butchko - Manager of New Product Development

Over the last 30 years, the computing efficiency gains inside CPUs have received most of the attention, but power semiconductor improvements in data-center power supplies have quietly delivered enormous energy savings. Power conversion efficiency has improved from roughly 80–85% in the 1990s to 96–98% today in leading AI and hyperscale systems. That may sound like only a 10–15 percentage point improvement, but because every server, switch, storage system, UPS, and power shelf depends on these devices, the impact is measured in megawatts per data center and gigawatts globally.