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PSU · Power Supply Unit

The component that converts incoming AC or DC into the regulated voltages a server or GPU node consumes.

Current numbers

33 kWper ORV3 HPR power shelf, 50 V nominal (~674 A max); 6–8 shelves per GB200-class rack; PSU ≥97.5% efficientas of 2026-10 · register ↗
Base 10 days; stress 20 daysCommodity PSU delivery interval: base and stress assumptions; separate from demand-observation exposureas of 2026-09-08 · register ↗
~400 J/GPUVera Rubin power-shelf PSU capacitor energy provisioned for per-transient smoothing at the rack — the layer beneath any BESS state-of-charge loop an agent would be allowed to touchas of 2026-03 · register ↗

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