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Power shelves & PSUs (33 kW-class ORV3 shelves, rack-level)

The rack-mounted power shelves that convert facility AC or DC input into the regulated rail distributed to trays across the rack, built to the Open Rack V3 33 kW-class spec used in rack-scale AI systems.

Power shelves sit between the facility's electrical distribution (layer 7) and the busbar or whips (4.15) that carry power the rest of the way to each tray; they're the rack's own bulk power-conversion stage. The Open Rack V3 form factor standardizes a 33 kW-class shelf design shared across ODMs, which lets a rack-scale system swap in shelves from multiple suppliers without re-engineering the rack's power architecture. AI racks need far more power-shelf capacity than a conventional server rack because GPU trays draw far more continuous power than general-purpose compute, and a growing share of that conversion work happens with wide-bandgap power semiconductors (4.12a) rather than silicon, since GaN and SiC devices handle these currents at higher efficiency and in less space. For investors, this tier tracks rack power density directly: as GPU generations draw more power per tray, shelf count and shelf capacity per rack both rise, and the suppliers who qualify early on a new shelf generation tend to hold that position through the generation's full production run.

AI delta: GPU trays draw far more continuous power than general-purpose compute, which is why rack-scale AI systems need substantially more power-shelf capacity per rack than a conventional server rack, and why wide-bandgap semiconductors are displacing silicon inside the shelf.

Appears at:Large colo / hyperscale buildingAI campusGW-class campus· cooling:any — the Open Rack V3 shelf format is specific to rack-scale systems at hyperscale and above; smaller enterprise GPU servers typically use conventional internal PSUs rather than shared rack-level power shelves.

Companies on this part (12)

CompanyRoleOwnershipTickerPrice1dConfidenceNote
AcBelmanufacturerpublic6282.TW45.20 TWD-0.1%inferred
Advanced Energy/ArtesynmanufacturerpublicAEIS287 USD-1.0%inferred
Bel FusemanufacturerpublicBELFA213 USD+2.0%inferred
Chicony Powermanufacturerpublic6412.TW78.60 TWD-0.6%inferred
Coselmanufacturerpublic6905.T1336 JPY-0.1%inferred
Delta Electronicsmanufacturerpublic2308.TW1800 TWD+2.0%inferred
EatonmanufacturerpublicETN416 USD-2.3%inferred
FlexmanufacturerpublicFLEX115 USD+1.1%inferredPower Modules
FSPmanufacturerpublic3015.TW54.40 TWD-0.7%inferred
Lite-Onmanufacturerpublic2301.TW307 TWD+1.8%inferred
Muratamanufacturerpublic6981.T7434 JPY+1.9%inferred
VertivmanufacturerpublicVRT269 USD-1.5%inferred

GaN and SiC inside 4.12a

CompanyRoleOwnershipTickerPrice1dConfidenceNote
InfineonmanufacturerpublicIFX.DE57.17 EUR+3.6%inferred
NavitasmanufacturerpublicNVTS12.51 USD-5.0%inferred
onsemimanufacturerpublicON74.80 USD+0.2%inferred
WolfspeedmanufacturerpublicWOLF26.95 USD-3.1%inferred
EPCmanufacturerprivateinferred

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The same table read the other way: every company above competes for power shelves & psus sockets. Confidence tags matter — an inferred placement is a lead, not a confirmed rivalry.

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