New technology promises to ease the strain caused by energy-guzzling data centres.
So much of what we do every day involves a data centre. Shopping online, streaming TV shows, reading this story - they all need data to be stored and readily available.Data centres need huge amounts of electricity to keep them going - a large facility will use as much electricity as a medium sized town.
If the wider electricity grid is under stress, the electricity to the data centre is shut off and back-up systems immediately kick-in. At Grange Castle, Eaton's UPS intervenes and frees up power on the grid when the grid's electrical frequency, measured in hertz, fluctuates in a way that indicates it is under stress.Many data centres already remove demand from the grid for a pre-defined period using established technology from companies such as Schneider Electric and Vertiv.
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