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HiPerGuard: Has ABB Solved Data Centres' Efficiency Problem?

Energydigital · · 821 words · By James Darley
Corporate Product Launch Energy Efficiency AI Infrastructure Growth

ABB has launched HiPerGuard, a medium-voltage uninterruptible power supply designed to increase energy efficiency in data centers by connecting directly to the grid. The system aims to reduce energy losses from voltage conversion and support the integration of renewable energy sources to meet growing AI power demands.

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“ABB is one of the latest company's to launch a new offering for the data centre sector.”
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Multiple sources confirm ABB has launched new power architectures and technologies for the data center sector, specifically mentioning AI-ready medium voltage power architecture and deliveries to Global Cloud Data Center.
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web search NEUTRAL — Ark Data Centres, one of the UK’s leading data centre operators, has been among the first to adopt ABB’s unique, new AI-ready medium voltage power architecture, which integrates the grid connection an…
https://www.voltimum.co.uk/news/abb-and-ark-data-centres-pow…
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web search NEUTRAL — ABB has completed the first delivery of medium-voltage switchgear and control gear for the Global Cloud Data Center created by Aruba, Italy's leading company in the sector.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/abb-delivers-state-art-techno…
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web search NEUTRAL — ABB Group is a Swedish-Swiss technology company, that operates in the fields of electrification and automation. The company was formed in 1988 from the merger of two electrical engineering companies, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABB
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“The name of this offering is the HiPerGuard.”
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Three independent web sources explicitly identify the new offering as 'HiPerGuard'.
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web search NEUTRAL — ABB's HiPerGuard Medium Voltage UPS (Credit: ABB). Operating at 98% efficiency, the system reduces energy losses tied to voltage conversion. ABB estimates that each one percent improvement in efficien…
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/how-abbs-new-ups-connect…
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web search NEUTRAL — Photo by ABB limited. HiPerGuard delivers 98 percent efficiency at voltages up to 24 kV, providing a more reliable grid connection while eliminating power outages and reducing carbon emissions.
https://www.expo21xx.com/news/abb-hiperguard/
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web search NEUTRAL — ABB is introducing HiPerGuard 34.5kV, a new version of its breakthrough medium voltage UPS, enabling AI data centers to connect directly to the grid without voltage conversion, improving efficiency an…
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/articles/34-5kv-hip…
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“It connects facilities directly to the grid at 34.5kV, meaning data centres can operate without having to convert or transform the voltage of electricity from the grid.”
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Multiple sources confirm the HiPerGuard system connects directly to the grid at 34.5kV and eliminates the need for intermediate voltage conversion.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Valdez Drexel "V. J." Edgecombe Jr. (born July 30, 2005) is a Bahamian professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "The Generator"…
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“ABB reports the system operates at 98% efficiency”
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Multiple sources, including Data Centre Magazine and EXPO21XX.com, explicitly state the system operates at 98% efficiency.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Namma Metro (transl. Our Metro), also known as Bengaluru Metro, is a rapid transit system serving the city of Bengaluru, the capital city of the state of Karnataka, India. It is the Third largest metr…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Siemens AG (German pronunciation: [ˈziːməns] or [-mɛns]) is a German multinational company. It is focused on industrial automation, building automation, rail transport and health technology. Siemens …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens
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“every one percent improvement in efficiency is worth approximately US$880,000 per year in a 100MW facility.”
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Two independent sources (Data Centre Magazine and LinkedIn) mention the specific figure of approximately US$880,000 per year in savings for a 1% efficiency gain in a 100MW facility.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — With about 4% of the world's population, the United States is the third most populous country (after India and China), and the most populous in the Americas and the Western Hemisphere. Its estimated p…
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“simplifying power systems this way can also reduce the amount of copper cabling and associated electrical hardware required in data centres, meaning they can cut the physical footprint of their energy architecture by 20–25% compared with conventional set-ups.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant Wikipedia entries about baseball players and cars. No relevant evidence regarding the 20-25% footprint reduction was found in the provided search results.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Guard is a military reserve organization of the United States Department of Defense (DoD). It is composed of reserve components of the United States Army and the United States Air Force: …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Toyota Hilux (; Japanese: トヨタ・ハイラックス, romanized: Toyota Hairakkusu), stylised as HiLux and historically as Hi-Lux, is a series of pickup trucks produced and marketed by the Japanese automobile man…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Valdez Drexel "V. J." Edgecombe Jr. (born July 30, 2005) is a Bahamian professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "The Generator"…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._J._Edgecombe
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“ABB says that its offering's microgrid-ready architecture enables operators to combine grid supply with on-site generation and storage.”
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Three independent sources confirm the microgrid-ready architecture and its ability to combine grid supply with on-site generation and storage.
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web search NEUTRAL — Microgrid-ready architecture supports energy mix. HiPerGuard 34.5kV is built with a microgrid-ready architecture, allowing integration with multiple energy sources. The system allows data centres to c…
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/how-abbs-new-ups-connect…
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web search NEUTRAL — HiPerGuard features a microgrid-ready architecture aimed at supporting rising global data center power needs tied to AI workloads.ABB is positioning HiPerGuard as part of an end to end power system th…
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/abb-hi…
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web search NEUTRAL — The system is Microgrid-ready to seamlessly integrate battery storage, renewables, and gas generation—giving operators unprecedented flexibility and resilience.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tim-sale-mba-18475a68_hipergu…
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“ABB's Power Exchanger technology plays an important role in this offering when it comes to battery management and grid interaction functions.”
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The provided evidence for this claim contains irrelevant information about the Mumbai Metro and Pervez Musharraf. No mention of 'Power Exchanger technology' was found in the provided results.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Blue Line 1 is a rapid transit metro line of the Mumbai Metro, in the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The 11.40 km (7.08 mi) line is fully elevated and consists of 12 stations, from Versova to Gha…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Siemens AG (German pronunciation: [ˈziːməns] or [-mɛns]) is a German multinational company. It is focused on industrial automation, building automation, rail transport and health technology. Siemens …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens
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“Demand is forecast to rise from 80GW in 2024 to around 220GW by 2030, with AI workloads accounting for roughly 70% of that growth.”
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“parallel configurations allow capacity to be expanded in stages of up to 25MW”
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“The HiPerGuard platform covers voltage levels from 4.16kV to 34.5kV and holds both IEC and UL certifications”
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“ABB has already begun deploying HiPerGuard systems across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.”
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“The company, along with Ark Data Centres, powered what was described as the UK's first AI data centre in December 2025”
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“For the rest of the world, the 34.5kV version of the HiPerGuard system will be available to order from summer 2026”
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