The goal of this workstream is to evaluate whether, where, and under what conditions HTS-based electrical infrastructure could become relevant for future AI data centers.
The goal of this workstream is to:
- Evaluate whether HTS is relevant for future AI data-center power infrastructure.
- Identify where HTS may provide value versus conventional systems.
- Define suitable use cases from grid interface to whitespace and rack-level distribution.
- Develop initial candidate reference architectures.
- Create a path toward validation, standardization, and future OCP contributions.
Upcoming workshops:
Past workshops:
Shared gDrive folder for the workstreams:
In Scope
- Grid-to-data-center electrical interface for HTS integration.
- Medium-voltage to low-voltage HTS interface concepts.
- HTS power distribution from electrical rooms to whitespace.
- Row-level, rack-level, and selected server-interface concepts.
- HTS tap-off and connection concepts.
- Cryogenic infrastructure, monitoring, redundancy, and maintainability.
- Protection philosophy, fault behavior, and HTS fault-current limiting.
- Fire interaction, emergency response, and hazard mitigation.
- Technical standards, code applicability, and OCP interface points.
- Comparison with copper and aluminium alternatives.
- Techno-economic, space, material, and energy-loss assessment.
- Supply-chain maturity and commercial deployment readiness.
- SMES as an adjacent HTS-enabled use case, where relevant to data-center power architecture.
Out of Scope
- Superconducting electronics.
- Quantum-computing infrastructure.
- Chip-level superconducting interconnects.
- Vendor-specific proprietary product design.
- Certification of any individual vendor solution.
- Room-temperature-superconductor concepts unless commercially validated.