Burner MetroVolt Housing
MetroVolt is the burner packaged for data centers, delivering the tandem-mirror generator as an on-site power source.
The data-center configuration
MetroVolt is the burner configured for data centers. As with Aegis, the reactor itself is unchanged: the same deuterium-helium-3 tandem-mirror generator with the same central cell, high-field plugs, expanders, and direct-energy converters. What differs is the housing, siting, and integration suited to supplying a data center's power demand.
What the housing addresses
- Integration with the continuous, high-density power needs of a data center.
- A layout appropriate to a commercial computing site.
- Balance-of-plant matched to that setting.
- The same machine core as the Aegis housing.
Why on-site generation
Data centers need large, steady, reliable power, and a compact generator that can sit near the load reduces dependence on the surrounding grid. The direct-energy converter's ability to produce electricity without a full thermal cycle is part of what makes the burner attractive for this role. The model presents the generation principle; it carries no economic or performance-per-site claims.
In the model
Selecting the MetroVolt housing shows the burner in its data-center enclosure. Toggling to Aegis keeps the internal machine identical and swaps only the packaging, which is the clearest demonstration that the two are one machine in two housings. The physics callouts, 26.49 T plug, 17 T throat, 5.44 percent neutron fraction, are unchanged between them.
The other housing and the machine
See the Aegis housing for the defense configuration and the burner overview for the shared generator.