Flexibility and Innovation in Data Center Design
As the digital society and economy grows, the data center infrastructure that underpins those services is rapidly scaling. As data centers grow in scale and significance, their role in supporting a flexible, reliable, and sustainable grid becomes increasingly critical.
DCFlex Workstream 1 focuses on Flexible Data Center Design investigating the needs for flexibility, the capabilities that may enable it and understand the extent to how it can be delivered.
Through a combination of leading modelling, analysis and real-world demonstrations, the workstream will inform across industries on leading practices to incorporate flexibility by design, on the performance of flexibility enhancing technologies and lessons from implementation across the globe.
Workstream Deliverables
Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines and Data Centers: Overview
This report provides a summary of engine types for DC power generation, reviews RICE use for both primary power and emergency backup applications, and then details information gathered on RICE use for DCs from multiple engine vendors and a provider of engine units.
Grid Flexibility Needs and Data Center Characteristics
This publicly-accessible white paper takes a first step toward developing a common understanding of flexibility between power providers, grid operators, and data center stakeholders
