Subscribe to Our Digest
Commercial agreement integrates TerraFlow’s LDUPS™ with DG Matrix’s Interport™ to create a new power architecture for AI data centers that manages compute loads while protecting the grid.
TerraFlow Energy and DG Matrix have announced a commercial agreement to deploy the first integrated vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) and solid-state transformer (SST) architecture in the United States to directly power a live high-performance computing cluster.
The initial deployment will integrate TerraFlow’s LDUPS™ long-duration uninterruptible power system with DG Matrix’s Interport™ solid-state transformer technology and Dell PowerEdge servers, putting a new data center power architecture into operation against real compute loads. The significance goes beyond combining two technologies. AI data centers are introducing enormous new loads to the power system, but the challenge is not only how much electricity they consume. High-performance compute can change power demand rapidly, pushing that volatility back through electrical infrastructure built for more predictable loads.
The integrated architecture is designed to manage power between the grid, on-site generation, energy storage, and compute in real time. TerraFlow’s LDUPS™ combines the millisecond response required for UPS functionality with hours of energy capacity, allowing it to continuously buffer changes in compute demand. DG Matrix’s Interport™ provides programmable solid-state power conversion, routing, and control between power sources and the compute load. Together, the technologies are designed to absorb rapid changes in demand before they reach the grid and other upstream electrical infrastructure.
The commercial agreement establishes a framework for TerraFlow and DG Matrix to bring the integrated LDUPS™ and Interport™ architecture into data center projects beyond the initial deployment. The companies are targeting applications where AI and high-performance computing require greater control over how power is delivered, managed, and exchanged with the grid.
The architecture also addresses a growing issue facing utilities and data center developers: how to connect gigawatts of new compute demand without requiring the power system to respond instantaneously to every change occurring inside the data center. By controlling those changes behind the meter, integrated storage and power distribution can help make large loads more predictable, more flexible, and ultimately easier for the grid to serve.
For TerraFlow and DG Matrix, the initial deployment is the starting point for a commercial architecture designed to scale with the rapidly growing power requirements of AI infrastructure.
“AI is changing the physics of the power system, and simply adding more generation doesn’t solve that problem,” said Jon Parrella, CEO of TerraFlow Energy. “We have to change how these enormous loads connect to and interact with the grid. By putting long-duration storage and intelligent power distribution between the grid and the compute, we can give data centers the power performance they need without asking the grid to absorb every movement in demand. That is how we start turning data centers from grid liabilities into grid assets.”
“AI infrastructure requires us to rethink power distribution from the grid all the way to the compute,” said Haroon Inam, CEO of DG Matrix. “Solid-state transformers allow us to control power dynamically rather than simply move it from one voltage to another. Combining that capability with TerraFlow’s LDUPS™ technology creates an architecture that can respond to the compute load in real time while controlling how that load is presented to the grid. This is the direction data center power infrastructure needs to go.”
More information about TerraFlow Energy
More information about DG Matrix