

America Needs More Electricity: Production Pulse
6 snips Feb 20, 2025
Join Chris Butler, President of Embedded and Critical Power at Flex, and Matt Vincent, Editor-in-Chief of Data Center Frontier, as they dive into America's soaring electricity demands driven by data centers and electric vehicles. They discuss Flex's new facility in Dallas, producing essential components for energy-hungry data processing. The conversation highlights major investments in grid infrastructure, the challenges utilities face, and innovative solutions for future energy resilience. Tune in for insights on powering the digital age!
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Flex Invests in Dallas
- Flex announced a new facility near Dallas, Texas, to manufacture switchgear for data centers.
- This expansion follows their acquisition of Crown Technical Systems, which builds "power pods."
Power Demand Drivers
- Growing power demand is driven by data centers, onshoring of manufacturing, and electrification.
- Data centers alone are projected to add 10 gigawatts of new capacity in 2025.
GPU Power Challenges
- GPUs in data centers significantly increase power consumption and density.
- This leads to power quality challenges like harmonics, which can cause disturbances over a wide area.