How solid-state transformers could help power the AI boom

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Solid-state transformers could modernize electricity transmission and help meet rising power demand from AI, but conventional transformers are complex and in short supply. The article examines potential upgrades to technology whose basic design has changed little in about a century.

Transformers are a crucial but nearly invisible part of our grid. The devices help efficiently move power across long distances, but they’re complicated and in short supply. And given that their basic design hasn’t changed much for about a century, they could use an upgrade.  As the world races to meet rising electricity demand from…