GaN Talk Blog

Gab-Su Seo^1,2, Ratul Das¹, and Hanh-Phuc Le^1
1Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado
²Power Systems Engineering Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado, U.S.A.

With drastically increasing demands for cloud computing and big data processing, the electric energy consumption of data centers in the U.S. is expected to reach 73 billion kWh by 2020 [1], which will account for approximately 10% of the U.S total electric energy consumption. A large portion of this consumption is caused by losses from inefficient power delivery architectures that require a lot of attention for improvements [2], [3].