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The Korean Startup Trying to Shrink the Grid's Heaviest Box
Crocus wants to replace the hundred-year-old iron transformer with a silicon one that thinks. Its bet: the same box that charges electric cars can also keep an AI data center from browning out.
Enteligent
Enteligent is a Morgan Hill, California startup building DC-to-DC power electronics that skip the wasteful AC conversion steps between solar panels, batteries, and the things that consume electricity. Its flagship products are the world's first solar-powered DC-to-DC bidirectional EV charger and the NMax module-level power optimizer for rooftop solar, and it is extending the same direct-current approach to AI data center racks. The pitch is simple arithmetic: keep electricity in DC form from generation to load and you lose less of it, which means faster charging, cheaper installs, and higher solar yields.
Zūm
Zūm is a Redwood City, California company that has reinvented the most analog corner of education: the yellow school bus. It pairs an AI-driven routing and fleet-management platform with apps for parents, drivers and districts, then layers on a fast-growing fleet of electric buses with vehicle-to-grid charging that can sell power back to the grid. Serving roughly 4,500 schools and districts nationwide, Zūm turned a clipboard-and-radio industry into a connected, electrified mobility network.