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18 Aug 2026, 2:30 AM	The Register	3.5	Siemens and Reinhausen turn up the voltage for hungry AI racks Siemens and Reinhausen are jointly developing a modular solid-state transformer (SST) that converts medium-voltage AC (up to 36 kV) directly into 800 VDC for high-density AI datacenter racks, reducing intermediate conversion stages. No commercial availability date was given. Nvidia separately plans its own 800 VDC power rack for the second half of 2026, citing that racks drawing 1 MW or more will require this shift. Why: This is early-stage hardware development with no ship date, so no action is needed now. The practical signal is that 800 VDC is becoming the industry standard for next-gen AI rack power — relevant only if you are planning datacenter capacity or evaluating colocation for GPU-heavy workloads in the next 2-3 years. For most builders running on cloud, this is background context, not a decision point. datacenter-infrastructure power ai-hardware siemens nvidia

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18 Aug 2026, 2:30 AM

The Register

3.5

Siemens and Reinhausen turn up the voltage for hungry AI racks

Siemens and Reinhausen are jointly developing a modular solid-state transformer (SST) that converts medium-voltage AC (up to 36 kV) directly into 800 VDC for high-density AI datacenter racks, reducing intermediate conversion stages. No commercial availability date was given. Nvidia separately plans its own 800 VDC power rack for the second half of 2026, citing that racks drawing 1 MW or more will require this shift.

Why: This is early-stage hardware development with no ship date, so no action is needed now. The practical signal is that 800 VDC is becoming the industry standard for next-gen AI rack power — relevant only if you are planning datacenter capacity or evaluating colocation for GPU-heavy workloads in the next 2-3 years. For most builders running on cloud, this is background context, not a decision point.