Planned projects combining data centers and on-site energy reflect an ongoing trend of data center investment moving to meet global green imperatives for decarbonization and sustainability via use of clean energy technologies.
Announcements this month for projects combining data centers and on-site energy, including one in Virginia with plans for a transition to small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear and hydrogen generation and one in West Virginia featuring hydrogen power derived from natural gas, illustrate an ongoing trend of data center investment moving to meet global green imperatives for decarbonization and sustainability via the use of clean energy technologies.
Clean energy investment toward development platforms targeting the hyperscale sector is a trend reported on earlier this year by DCF Editor at Large Rich Miller, who noted in his January story about Houston-based clean energy proponent CleanArc Data Centers that the market is currently at “a moment when data centers and energy companies are forging deeper connections, as both industries wrestle with the growing specter of climate change and cloud computing’s appetite for renewable energy to support massive MegaCampuses that can exceed 500 megawatts.”
