ABB acquires Advantics to strengthen its bid for DC power in data cen…

ABB acquires Advantics, a French silicon carbide power conversion specialist, to expand its direct current portfolio for data centers, microgrids, and EV charging infrastructure. The deal accelerates ABB's position in high-efficiency DC architectures as electricity demand shifts toward native DC systems that reduce AC/DC conversion losses. If you sell power management, cooling, or energy storage into data centres or EV charging, ABB just bought the component layer and is now integrating upwards into systems. You either become their customer or build what they can't — the layer above or beside power conversion that their SiC modules now enable at scale.