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Crusoe is making a bet that better power electronics will make its data centers more flexible.
The AI infrastructure company and lead developer of the Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas, announced today that it’s partnering with ON.energy, which builds power-systems technology for large loads. Starting this year, Crusoe will deploy five gigawatts of ON.energy’s uninterruptible power systems, or UPS, at its campuses across the country.
It is the latest of a series of deals through which Crusoe has been building a supply chain of the technologies it needs for its nearly 5-GW pipeline of data centers, at a time when shortages of equipment from transformers to gas turbines threaten to delay the AI infrastructure buildout. Last March, the company announced two major deals with Form Energy and Redwood Materials for battery deployments.
ON.energy’s UPS — a piece of medium-voltage electrical equipment comprising a backup battery, two power conversion systems, and a transformer — is designed specifically for AI data centers. It sits between the data center and its power source and decouples the two, acting as a shock absorber against both internal GPU load swings that would otherwise destabilize the grid, and external voltage faults that risk damaging sensitive equipment.
