Musashi Energy Solutions Co., Ltd. (Head office: Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture; President: Kouji Takahashi, “Musashi Energy Solutions”), a group company of Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co., Ltd. (Global Headquarters: Toyohashi-city, Aichi, Japan; President and CEO: Hiroshi Otsuka, “Musashi”) and Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX)　announced an extensive collaboration to supply Flex-designed and manufactured Capacitor-based Energy Storage Systems (CESS) featuring Musashi’s Hybrid Super Capacitor (HSC) technology. These systems are designed to integrate with server rack power systems to address significant challenges with utility power in artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. First to market with Musashi’s HSC technology, Flex has collaborated with Musashi to develop strategic technology and product development roadmaps for current and future products that enable hyperscale operators to mitigate utility power fluctuations in data centers deploying AI workloads.

Flex’s CESS solutions are designed to balance peak power and protect the grid from intense power surges and line disturbances during AI training and inference activities taking place in modern data center environments. Musashi's state-of-the-art HSCs are designed to provide high-reliability energy storage in many applications and are known for their power density, longevity, and reliability. The technology reduces equipment size, weight and total cost of ownership.

Flex is slated to begin production of its CESS in the first half of Calendar Year 2025, with commercial availability expected within one quarter of production start.

Details of the joint announcement can be found at the following URL

Flex - Flex and Musashi Energy Solutions Partner to Mitigate Utility Power Challenges in AI Data Centers

[About Musashi]

Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co., Ltd. is a global auto parts Tier1 company for automobiles and motorcycles, whose headquarters is located in Toyohashi, Japan. It has 35 manufacturing sites spreading across Europe, North and South America, China, and South East Asia. Musashi specializes in designing, developing and manufacturing products such as Differential Assemblies, Transmission Gears and Assemblies, and Linkage and Suspension (L&S) products especially for the future automobiles including electric and autonomous vehicles. Musashi is also generating and expanding new businesses through open innovation with global startups to contribute to the SDGs in wider business domains. Musashi AI, a leading-edge AI technology subsidiary to lead Industry 4.0, is one of the examples.

Website: https://www.musashi.co.jp/en/

【About Musashi Energy Solutions】

Musashi Energy Solutions is the first company in the world to start mass production of hybrid supercapacitors (HSC). HSC has features such as high power output, long life, and high safety. It is a sustainable energy device that is expected to contribute to optimising the energy efficiency of data centres and large commercial electric vehicles, which will become the next generation of social infrastructure.

Website: https://www.musashi-es.co.jp/en/