Moonshot Blog
The Future Power Stack: Nuclear, Batteries, and Hybrid Systems
Explore how MoonShot develops hybrid power systems combining nuclear energy, batteries and renewables to power AI data centers and mission-critical infrastructure, improving reliability and sustainability.
Waste Heat Reuse and the Path to Carbon-Negative Data Centers
Learn how MoonShot turns waste heat into usable energy to support carbon-negative data centers and modular power systems, boosting sustainability and efficiency.
Digital Twins and Predictive Maintenance for Power Infrastructure: Why “Set It and Forget It” No Longer Works
Most data center failures do not begin with a dramatic explosion, a flashing red alarm, or a total system collapse. They usually begin much earlier, in quieter ways. A bus connection starts running a few degrees hotter than normal. A fan motor picks up a vibration...
Performance Per Watt Is the New KPI for AI Infrastructure
For years, data center efficiency was judged mostly by one number: PUE. Power Usage Effectiveness gave the industry a simple way to measure how much total facility energy was required to support the energy actually consumed by IT equipment. If a data center had a PUE...
Transformer Shortage and Supply Chain Reality: Why Electrical Gear Is Now the AI Data Center Bottleneck
For the last two years, most of the AI infrastructure conversation has been about chips. Who gets the GPUs? Who gets priority access? Who has the capital to buy the next generation of accelerators? Who can build enough compute fast enough to serve the demand? That...
Liquid Cooling and Power Infrastructure Convergence: Why AI Data Centers Can No Longer Design Power and Thermal Systems Separately
For most of the data center industry’s history, cooling was treated as a facility system that supported the IT load. Servers produced heat, mechanical systems removed it, and electrical teams made sure enough power was available to keep everything running. The two...
Utility Interconnection Is the New Critical Path for AI Data Centers
For a long time, data center teams treated utility interconnection like a slow administrative process. It was important, certainly, but it sat somewhere upstream of the “real” engineering work. The project team would submit the load request, wait for studies,...
Designing for 100 kW to 1 MW Racks: Why AI Infrastructure Is Breaking Old Distribution Assumptions
For years, data center design had a fairly stable center of gravity. Rack densities moved up, but not so violently that the entire facility architecture had to be reconsidered every hardware cycle. A 5 kW rack was normal. A 10 kW rack was meaningful. A 20 kW rack...
The Rise of On-Site Power: Why AI Data Centers Are Starting to Own the Power Stack
For years, data center development followed a familiar sequence: find the site, secure utility service, design the facility, procure equipment, build the campus, energize the load. Power was critical, but it was usually treated as something the utility would...
Solid-State Transformers and 800 VDC: What AI Data Centers Are Really Preparing For
For decades, data center power architecture followed a fairly familiar pattern. Utility power entered the site as AC, was transformed, distributed, converted, protected, stepped down, converted again, and eventually delivered to servers that were ultimately running on...