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supporting that growth are becoming increasingly important. Nickel-zinc uses abundant, highly recyclable materials and delivers 25 – 50 % lower lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions than lead-acid or lithium-ion alternatives, giving designers a more sustainable chemistry without compromising the performance requirements of modern AI infrastructure.
Together, the combination of power capability, usable energy storage, high-rate performance, superior safety and sustainability makes nickelzinc particularly well suited to the evolving requirements of rack-level energy storage. These are also the attributes at the core of ZincFive’ s dedicated solutions for both traditional backup and AI dynamic power applications.
Bringing nickel-zinc into the rack
ZincFive has spent years applying high-rate nickel-zinc technology to immediate power applications in mission-critical data centres. We are now extending that technology from the UPS layer into the rack.
The development of our NiZn In-Rack Power Solutions is centred on two dedicated solutions.
The ZincFive Battery Backup Unit( BBU) is being developed for established rack-level backup applications, bringing NiZn’ s high power capability, superior safety and high-rate performance into architectures where backup power must be available immediately when primary power is interrupted.
The ZincFive AI Dynamic Power Module( DPM) is being developed to support rapidly changing AI power demands, including transient mitigation, pulse power support and other dynamic power applications.
The distinction is intentional. We do not believe every rack, workload or customer will require the same energy storage architecture.
Instead, the goal is to give OEMs, hyperscalers and data centre operators greater flexibility to deploy the capability that fits the application, whether that means traditional backup, dynamic power support, or a combination of solutions across different portions of their infrastructure.
ZincFive is developing solutions compatible with established 48V rack-level systems while also aligning with emerging sidecar and highervoltage architectures. This approach recognises that data centre power designs continue to diversify and allows customers and partners to evaluate the right solution based on workload, rack design and power requirements.
Safety becomes more important as storage gets closer to compute
There is another reason chemistry matters more at the rack.
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