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lazidetoday at 7:01 PM0 repliesview on HN

Issue is mostly lack of standard dc power distribution standards - outside of old telco ones anyway.

It’s cheap and easy (relatively) to transform AC voltages, and hence to manage AC power distribution. DC is trickier, and voltage switching is relatively more expensive and flakier. Hence why DC distribution tends to be within a device/controlled setup.