The built environment is undergoing rapid transformation as forces like digitalization, electrification, sustainability, and AI take hold. These advancements will change how we manage, use, and operate spaces, of course, but they will also change how we power them, whether we’re designing new projects or upgrading existing properties.
Power distribution is at the center of these shifts. The way electricity is delivered and managed can determine how quickly and effectively facilities can adapt to new needs. Digital Electricity® can enable transformation by:
- Solving challenges associated with legacy power-distribution infrastructure
- Providing fast, scalable, and smart power distribution matched to demands
- Enabling quick, affordable, and sustainable modernization
- Unlocking new possibilities for safety, flexibility, and intelligent management
Here are five examples of where Digital Electricity can create real value:
Data Centers
As AI and cloud computing accelerate, data centers must keep up with rising power demands from high-density racks. These racks handle intensive workloads and push cooling systems to work harder.
At the same time, operators face pressure to reduce environmental impact and operational costs to meet sustainability goals. Legacy power-distribution models struggle to keep up with these dynamic requirements.
Why Digital Electricity is a good fit for data centers
As data centers transition to support increasing workloads, Digital Electricity makes high-capacity, flexible power distribution possible so they can keep up with demands. It can scale and reconfigure easily to support changes at a pace and cost that legacy AC models can’t match.
As needs flex, teams can quickly adapt to new requirements without needing a licensed electrician or scheduling disruptive work. With minimal training, in-house teams or limited-energy contractors can safely deploy and modify systems on their own. This, combined with the fact that Digital Electricity infrastructure is faster to install than traditional systems, leads to significant reductions in installation costs. It also promotes faster time to market, which is crucial for data centers that rely on fast expansion and tech upgrades. (Based on the project, unpacking components can sometimes take longer than actual deployment!)
Because it distributes power through communication cable, Digital Electricity maximizes usable data center space while reducing costs. The result: efficient layouts, lower expenses, and better sustainability metrics.
Service Providers
To meet rising connectivity demands, telecom service providers are rapidly expanding their infrastructure. This expansion includes deployment of 5G radios, investments in distributed antenna systems (DAS), and rollouts of small cells and edge sites.
These initiatives call for reliable power to be safely delivered across long distances to support network hardware, antennas, and active electronics distributed across remote sites, towers, rooftops, and dense urban areas.
Traditional power-distribution methods make it difficult to support fast growth because they require costly, complex wiring, onsite power supplies, and intensive electrical work.
Why Digital Electricity is a good fit for service providers
By centralizing power for remote radios, antennas, DAS, and small cells without onsite power supplies or distributed battery banks, Digital Electricity substantially reduces hardware and maintenance requirements for service providers. It also enables remote monitoring and management, giving providers real-time management capabilities so they can maintain uptime in response to changing network demands.
Its capacity and reach are essential for powering network hardware at the edge and in distributed environments where traditional AC systems require extensive electrical work and permitting.
Enterprise Buildings and Campuses
As they digitize operations, support hybrid workplaces, and expand connected services, enterprise buildings and campuses are relying on an influx of IoT devices, sensors, wireless access points, and integrated building management systems that must work reliably across large spaces.
To respond to changes in occupancy and space utilization, these environments need to adapt quickly. Traditional AC electrical infrastructure is typically too slow, costly, and inflexible to keep up with the pace of these demands, making technology upgrades, expansion, and sustainability initiatives difficult to implement.
Why Digital Electricity is a good fit for enterprise buildings and campuses
Because Digital Electricity scales easily, it helps buildings and campuses accelerate digital transformation and allows in-house teams to change layouts and add devices as needs evolve … all without major infrastructure rework. By enabling dynamic, zone-based deployment, this technology makes buildings truly adaptable.
By unifying power and data onto a single network, campuses can integrate devices and systems for streamlined management and scalability. Building owners and managers can control every circuit to optimize energy use through the real-time insights they gain into the status of critical power infrastructure.
Transportation Networks
To boost safety and the passenger experience, transportation networks are replacing internal combustion vehicles and legacy systems with electric fleets. They’re rolling out an array of smart devices across vast regions, and implementing real-time intelligence to monitor and control assets and operations.
These upgrades all require safe power systems that deploy quickly, integrate with digital controls, and scale efficiently as infrastructure evolves.
Why Digital Electricity is a good fit for transportation networks
Transportation networks need to move fast. They can’t tolerate disruptions to roll out upgrades or new tech. Digital Electricity gives operators a way to safely power sensors, cameras, charging stations, and network infrastructure across large terminals, tunnels, and remote transit sites using communication cabling.
As these networks require more connectivity, Digital Electricity is straightforward to install, relocate, and expand to bring power wherever it’s needed without waiting for major construction work or calling in a licensed electrician.
Built-in safety checks protect people and equipment in critical transit environments. If a fault or unsafe condition is detected, then power transmission stops, avoiding the possibility of harm or damage.
Because it can connect seamlessly to monitoring software, operators have access to instant updates and control at the circuit level.
Building Electrification
In recent years, building owners have begun aggressively pursuing electrification as they move from fossil fuels toward electric systems to achieve net-zero performance and decarbonize operations. Simultaneously, they’re deploying more smart devices and controls to improve energy efficiency and support real-time usage optimization.
While this shift unlocks sustainability and performance gains, legacy electrical infrastructure and expensive upgrades often block progress. Running traditional AC power can be too costly or complex to implement at scale, especially in existing buildings.
Why Digital Electricity is a good fit for building electrification
Digital Electricity significantly simplifies electrification efforts by reducing installation time and costs, even in older facilities that can’t be easily retrofitted with traditional electrical systems.
Owners can electrify safely while avoiding the massive expense and time associated with upgrading wiring, adding new conduit, or tearing into walls or ceilings for major rework. And it can be installed using communication cabling in existing data pathways.
Circuits can be monitored in real-time to manage loads and optimize energy usage as new systems come online.
Digital Electricity Delivers
As innovation accelerates and the demands on the built environment continue to grow, Digital Electricity will only become more compelling as it overcomes the limitations of conventional AC methods.
For owners, operators, and engineers who are seeking practical, scalable power solutions, Digital Electricity will be the answer to their next-generation infrastructure challenges.
