Energy constraints have led to innovations in the local data centre industry.
centre operators are increasingly turning to renewable energy solutions to diversify their energy sources as they battle to secure the power they need for their operations.
To avoid using costly diesel, however, ADC has signed agreements with municipalities that remove their facilities from the standard load shedding schedules in lieu of a load curtailment strategy.
On the practical side of things, investments in renewable energy supply – including rooftop solar – have helped offset around 5% of the grid power data centres use during the day. But solar has little impact on nighttime consumption because the cost of sufficient storage capacity in the form of batteries is not economically feasible – they are just too expensive.But renewables do make an impact if they are employed at sufficient scale.
Other data centre operators, such as Vantage Data Centers, have concluded similar wheeling agreements with solar farms as far away as the remote Northern Cape.
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