How the Alliance is governed: membership, the board, the working groups, and the intellectual-property and antitrust policies that keep the standard open and neutral.
Establishes the Direct Power Alliance and its registered office.
A neutral, member-governed consortium to define, publish, and steward an open native-DC (800VDC) power standard for AI data centers — generation to rack — and demonstrate it with a reference architecture and pilot. Operated not for profit.
Seven classes — Founding, Gold, Silver, Associate, Research & Academic, Individual, and Liaison — with dues and votes per the Membership table. Government institutional funding flows through grants, cooperative agreements, or OTAs, not dues. The Founding class closes at $30M (≈10 founders) or ratification of Spec v1.0.
Annual and special meetings, notice, quorum, and voting (votes scale with membership class). Electronic participation permitted.
Up to twelve voting directors: one per Founding Member (up to ten), one elected by industry members, one by the research caucus; the Executive Director serves ex officio without a vote. No single member or group holds a majority.
Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, elected by the board; an optional Executive Director runs operations.
Four chartered working groups — Generation & Storage, Distribution & Bus, Protection & Safety, Codes & Certification — operating by rough consensus, with output subject to the IPR policy.
Members must disclose patent claims essential to a final specification and grant every implementer an irrevocable, royalty-free, reciprocal license to those claims for compliant implementations — with a no-patent-ambush rule, a defensive-suspension clause, and open publication of every specification. The standard stays free to implement; products built to it compete on their merits.
Full commitment to competition law: no discussion of prices, output, customers, or territories; published agendas, minutes, and the right to halt any concerning discussion.
Fiscal year, dues, no private inurement, and an annual financial review.
Indemnifies directors, officers, and agents to the extent the law allows.
Disclosure and recusal for conflicts; a code of conduct for meetings and online participation.
Bylaws amended by a two-thirds vote of votes cast at a duly called meeting.
On dissolution, remaining assets go to organizations with a consistent mission, per the Alliance’s tax-exempt status.