OT: UPS for FreeBSD

[Michael Powell]

Jon Radel wrote:

> On 11/28/14, 8:26 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote:
>> I've always found it amazingly absurd that you use a UPS (a bank of
>> batteries charged by AC->DC conversion), invert it back to AC, which gets
>> converted to DC for the motherboard and peripherals.
>>
>> But that's just me, probably.
> 
> Hardly.  See
> http://hightech.lbl.gov/dc-powering/
> https://gigaom.com/2012/01/13/the-next-big-thing-for-data-centers-dc-power/
> etc.  It's not storming the world, but some are doing it.


Google's been doing it for years:

http://www.cnet.com/news/google-uncloaks-once-secret-server-10209580/

-Mike