乌兰察布，中国内蒙古地区的一个城市，曾以土豆闻名。如今，这里是一家中国可再生能源公司尝试一种为AI芯片供电新方法的地方，这体现了中国在数据中心所需电力系统方面的优势。
Ulanqab, a city in China’s Inner Mongolia region, used to be known for its potatoes. Now it’s where a Chinese renewable energy firm is trying out a new way to plug in AI chips that shows China’s edge in the power systems that data centers need.
总部位于上海的远景能源表示，该公司本月早些时候开始在当地数据中心使用800伏直流系统为计算工作负载供电。这种在电网与芯片之间浪费较少电力的系统，被广泛认为将成为为日益耗电的AI服务器供电的标准方式，远景能源称其是首个在运行中的数据中心中使用该系统的公司。英伟达及其合作伙伴仍在为明年推出的下一代AI硬件准备同类系统。
Envision Energy has started using an 800-volt direct-current system to power computing workloads at its data center there, the Shanghai-based company said earlier this month. The setup, which wastes less electricity between the grid and the chips, is widely expected to become the standard way to power increasingly energy-hungry AI servers, and Envision says it is the first to run it in a functioning data center. Nvidia and its partners are still preparing the same kind of system for their next generation of AI hardware, due next year.