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Batteries for AI Data Centres: BBU vs UPS

October 26, 2026 Charlie Hawkins
Sketch comparing a facility UPS, with a battery room behind a double-conversion UPS, against a rack-level BBU battery shelf sitting beside the 48 V power shelf inside the rack.

An AI training rack is not a bigger version of an old server rack. It draws power in a different pattern, at a different voltage, and the battery that protects it has moved from a separate battery room to a shelf inches from the accelerators. This post sets out what that shift asks of the … Read more

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