Medium-Voltage Integration

The burner ties into the campus at medium voltage, the level where large loads and sources meet before stepping down to racks — the practical integration point.

Where source meets campus

Data centers distribute power across the site at medium voltage, then step down to low voltage near the racks. Medium voltage is the natural point to inject a large firm source: it is high enough to move campus-scale power efficiently over short distances and low enough to interface without transmission-class equipment.

Injecting the burner at the medium-voltage bus lets it sit alongside the grid feed as a peer source, with transfer logic choosing among them. It also keeps the burner's DC-like output and its conditioning localized, presenting a clean, campus-standard interface to the rest of the site.

Medium-voltage integration is deliberately conventional. By meeting the campus at the level it already uses, the burner avoids requiring bespoke electrical infrastructure and reuses the protection, metering, and switching data-center engineers already deploy. That familiarity is part of what makes the availability engineering tractable — the reliability of MV switchgear and transfers is well characterized.

The integration point, in short, is chosen for practicality: inject firm base power where the campus already aggregates its large flows, and let the standard downstream chain carry it to the chips.

• Campuses distribute at medium voltage before stepping down
• MV is the practical injection point for a large firm source
• Burner sits as a peer to the grid feed with transfer logic
• Reuses standard, well-characterized MV equipment