{"id":18842,"date":"2025-11-19T10:39:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transformer-technology.com\/?p=18842"},"modified":"2025-11-19T14:59:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:59:54","slug":"amperesand-raises-80m-to-scale-medium-voltage-solid-state-transformers-for-ai-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transformer-technology.com\/amperesand-raises-80m-to-scale-medium-voltage-solid-state-transformers-for-ai-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Amperesand Raises $80M to Scale Medium Voltage Solid-State Transformers for AI Data Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The MV SST<\/strong> platform integrates hardware, software, and intelligent controls into a single compact unit, reducing installation labor by half and accelerating time to power tenfold. Its design also reduces the electrical footprint by more than 80%, enabling rapid deployment of high-power facilities while maintaining grid stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The company plans to deploy 30MW of commercial systems in 2026, targeting hyperscale AI data centers, defense applications, and megawatt-level charging solutions. Early commercial deployments include a pilot project at the Port of Singapore in collaboration with PSA International<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brian Dow<\/strong>, CEO and Co-Founder of Amperesand<\/strong>, highlighted that the platform supports secure, on-and-off-grid operations and leverages regional supply chains for local manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Founded through incubation by Xora Innovation<\/strong> and spun out of Nanyang Technological University<\/strong>, Amperesand<\/strong> has expanded operations in the U.S. and Singapore, with global staff expected to surpass 100 employees by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Series A round was co-led by Walden Catalyst Ventures<\/strong> and Temasek<\/strong>, with participation from Industry Ventures<\/strong>, Acclimate Ventures<\/strong>, SG Growth Capital<\/strong>, Xora Innovation<\/strong>, Material Impact<\/strong>, TDK Ventures<\/strong>, and Foothill Ventures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The funding will support commercialization, engineering expansion, and delivery of advanced power solutions that address the growing energy demands of AI workloads and critical infrastructure worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: businesswire.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amperesand, a Singaporean developer of next-generation power infrastructure for AI data centers and critical power applications, has secured $80 million in Series A funding to scale its Medium Voltage Solid-State Transformer (MV SST) platform. The MV SST platform integrates hardware, software, and intelligent controls into a single compact unit, reducing installation labor by half and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3090,"featured_media":18843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transformer-technology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transformer-technology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transformer-technology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transformer-technology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transformer-technology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/transformer-technology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18844,"href":"https:\/\/transformer-technology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842\/revisions\/18844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transformer-technology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transformer-technology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transformer-technology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transformer-technology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}