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BBU · Battery Backup Unit

Rack-level battery that rides through power dips and absorbs sudden GPU load swings before the BESS or genset reacts.

Rack-mounted battery providing short ride-through and load-transient smoothing for AI racks.

Also written as: Battery Backup Unit

Current numbers

3–5% vs >99%central UPS: double-conversion loss vs eco-mode / advanced-standby efficiency (Vertiv Liebert EXL S1 datasheet) — a UPS figure, not the ORv3 BBUas of 2026 · register ↗
~50% / 2–3%battery-capacity cut and double-conversion-loss cut from distributed BBU + supercaps vs central 2Nas of 2026 · register ↗
<2 ms ramp after ~2 ms qualificationORv3 BBU v1.4 ramp to full power after the low-voltage qualification interval (OCP specification, September 2023); ≥46 V bus requirementas of 2023-09-12 · register ↗

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