The collaboration is structured around several key deliverables:

- a comprehensive white paper, Data Center Facility – Low Voltage Direct Current Power Distribution, detailing architectures and best practices for scalable AI infrastructure;

- a training program available in the OCP Academy to educate engineers and professionals on open-standard system design and deployment;

- and a formal specification document defining technical requirements, interfaces, and interoperability standards to enable vendor-agnostic innovation.

A Key Solution for Efficient, Resilient, and Scalable AI Data Centers

Faced with the exponential growth of computing needs—particularly driven by cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and digital services—the optimization of data center energy systems has become a major challenge.

Direct current (DC) is a promising solution to reduce energy losses, simplify electrical architectures, and improve infrastructure reliability.

The alliance between Current/OS and OCP aims to promote the adoption of open standards for DC architectures in data centers and to unite an ecosystem of industrial, technological, and academic stakeholders around this transition, addressing the growing challenges of power consumption, performance, and sustainability.

This collaboration is expected to deliver tangible benefits for the design and operation of next-generation data centers. The two organizations will work to reduce electrical conversion stages, increase power density for AI workloads, and enhance infrastructure resilience while simplifying electrical architectures. The initiative also aligns with open and interoperable standards to foster innovation, industrial adoption, and compatibility across the ecosystem.

James Kelly, VP Market Intelligence & Innovation, Open Compute Project Foundation: “By uniting OCP’s open data center leadership with Current/OS’s open DC microgrid standards, we’re shaping a path toward a vendor-neutral industry framework for DC-native data centers, making them more adaptable to next-generation AI infrastructure while improving overall facility efficiency and resilience.”

Vincenzo Salmeri, President of Current/OS: “This collaboration with OCP is a crucial step in accelerating the transformation of digital infrastructures toward more energy-efficient and resilient models. Direct current offers significant gains in energy efficiency and architectural simplicity.”

The alliance between the two organizations will fuse OCP's expertise in open data center hardware with Current/OS's open standards for safe, interoperable direct current microgrids. This alliance aims to accelerate the shift from traditional AC-based power to efficient hybrid AC/DC or fully DC-native data center infrastructure.