As AI workloads swing from idle to full throttle in milliseconds, a little-known battery chemistry is being pitched as the “first line of defence” inside the UPS—handling inference spikes and the blackout insurance in the same box.
The news
On November 3, 2025 (PT), Oregon-based ZincFive announced BC 2 AI, a nickel-zinc (NiZn) UPS battery cabinet built specifically for AI data-center power profiles—those sharp, repeated bursts that come from GPU clusters during inference or training. The company says the cabinet pairs pulse handling with conventional backup runtime in a single, compact footprint,
