DC Power Distribution
Direct energy conversion yields DC natively, and modern data centers increasingly distribute DC — a natural pairing that can cut conversion stages between source and chip.
DC from source to silicon
Conventional plants generate AC, which is converted to DC at several points before it reaches a chip, and each conversion sheds energy. Data centers have been moving toward DC distribution to cut those stages. A source that produces DC natively fits that trend directly.
The burner's direct energy conversion produces a DC-like output because it decelerates charged particles against an electric field rather than spinning an AC generator. That makes it a natural match for a DC bus, for batteries (which are DC), and for the DC that accelerators ultimately consume. Fewer AC-DC round trips means fewer places to lose energy and fewer components to fail.
This is a physical and reliability argument, not an economic one. Each removed conversion stage is one fewer failure mode and one fewer contributor to the campus's outage budget, which matters given the availability gate. Simpler power paths are easier to make reliable.
The design does not assume a fully DC campus, since AC remains common and grid interconnection is AC. But where a site adopts DC distribution, the burner's native DC output aligns with it cleanly, and where it does not, the conditioning layer inverts to AC as needed.
- Every AC-DC conversion sheds energy and adds failure modes
- DEC output is native DC
- Matches DC buses, batteries, and accelerator loads
- Fewer conversions simplify the reliability picture