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Be cool AND sustainable. 🇳🇴 Bulk Data Centers in Norway shows us the way! Here's what they're doing: ✅ High-Density Racks: Efficient cooling at higher temperatures reduces the need for expansion and construction materials. ✅ USystems' CL20 Heat Exchangers: Reclaim 15% of wasted energy compared to traditional cooling, saving trees and aligning with Norway's green energy initiatives. ✅ Adaptive Intelligence: Precise temperature control minimizes risks and optimizes airflow. Inspired by Bulk Data Centers? USystems and ColdLogik offer customizable, intelligent data center solutions to help you achieve peak performance while minimizing your environmental impact. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ePqREriZ #SustainableDatacenters #AI #LegrandSolutions #Cooling

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In my latest article published by The Fast Mode, I share my thoughts on the seismic shifts happening across the power and data center space. The surge in AI workloads has inevitably led to the rise of distributed power sources, including various sustainable energy solutions such as solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and microgrids. These power sources can scale to meet the increasingly high #AI demands while reducing reliance on fossil fuels and the electric grid. 📲 Click here to read the full article: https://lnkd.in/grxxY8Wq #TheFastMode #DataCenters #SustainableEnergy

With the increasing decentralisation and digitalisation of the power grid, artificial intelligence can help operating grids differently. AI can be used to efficiently balance the grid, it can coordinate the charging of electric cars, and much more. “By 2030, we expect to have about 75 million electric cars on the road. Leaving the ice age of combustion engines behind will require an awful lot of new charging infrastructure, not to mention other factors such as adding 50 million heat pumps to the grid,” said Kristian Ruby at the SAP for Energy and Utilities Conference in Sevilla, Spain. Read more in this interview by Forbes 👉 https://lnkd.in/gtJdKAS5 Daniela Haldy-Sellmann Judith Magyar Eleonora Rinaldi #energy #electricity #electrification #decarbonisation #AI

With the increasing #decentralisation and #digitalisation of the #powergrid, #artificialintelligence can help operating and balancing #grids efficiently.: A greater #focus on #digitalization is neeeded in the #electrictysector. The electrification of Europe : #AI - #artificialintelligence is everywhere in the sector. With the increasing decentralization and #digitalization of the #powergrid, AI is used to #balance the #grid efficiently by analyzing data from various sources including consumers, producers, and storage. AI detects anomalies in generation, consumption, or transmission and develops suitable solutions. And of course, it’s used to coordinate and execute maintenance work, minimizing costs and disturbances of the network operation. “By 2030, we expect to have about 75 million electric cars on the road. Leaving the ice age of combustion engines behind will require an awful lot of new charging infrastructure, not to mention other factors such as adding 50 million heat pumps to the grid,” Ruby said. He explained that the market is experiencing a regular gold rush in renewables as the EU is approaching the end of a political mandate with new politicians and policy makers jockeying for position as a new era emerges. There’s also the matter of an estimated €60 to €70 billion of investments in distribution grids needed until 2050. The mega trend : The biggest change #Ruby sees in the #energytransition is #decentralization. While there will still be many centralized assets, Eurelectric estimates that some 70% of all new generation capacities will be connected to medium- and low-voltage grids, creating a massive shift of dynamics. “We need to operate grids differently. We’ll need to reconstruct the supply to ensure demand is met for local companies. Distribution companies will be facing much more complex flows, much higher loads, and they’ll have a multitude of customers they've not had before,” he explained. To deal with these changes, Ruby sees a need for more entrepreneurs, less regulatory sort of restrictions, and a revised time window for #investments with greater #visibility, more #foresight, and a greater #focus on #digitalization than ever before. #Electricity #Digitalization #ArtificialIntelligence Metehan Ercömert Rabia Ercömert Eurelectric Kristian Ruby Eleonora Rinaldi Aybar BAŞARAN Emre Pehlivanlı Onurkan GOKTAS Oğuz Ural AK Judith Magyar

The image below is the antidote to the ever pervasive doom & gloom surrounding the ability of the US electric grid in handling the dynamic AI loads. Besides the electrical grid there is a robust and reliable gas grid. Why are we not leveraging it? Bloom Energy has a Micro-Grid running on Natural Gas, capable of handling the AI step loads. Link to the paper that talks about "Load Following on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells". >> https://lnkd.in/gTjHBUZd #microgrids #ailoads #datacenters

I've sat on and listened to multiple #datacenter conference panels in the last 2 years. It’s no surprise that sustainability is a popular topic. What is surprising is that as an industry we haven’t been able to identify immediately impactful mitigation strategies; most of our peers agree that progress needs to be made but very few ideas are truly actionable today.  Some suggestions are quite innovative and actionable with great promise, but will take time to make a difference. Modular nuclear reactors are terrific in theory, but have years of regulatory battles before even being considered a viable alternative to fossil fuels. Engaging suppliers to develop a plan for monitoring and reducing emissions in the supply chain is obviously necessary but will take time to bear fruit. Firms like CleanArc Data Centers are blazing an impressive trail to address the need for clean data center power in the Hyperscale space, and Compass Datacenters is repurposing existing buildings, but construction and adoption will take time. So, what can the leaders in this space do today to not only reduce emissions but practice emissions avoidance? One impactful strategy: trailer optimization.  KODIS has done enough delivery chain analyses in the last year for me to be certain that one immediately impactful strategy is trailer optimization. For example, KODIS performed an analysis for a single product critical to a hyperscaler's building. We found that the manufacturer used ~30% more trucks than were required based on the size of the freight being shipped. In real numbers it was 115 extra trucks, 800 tons of excess carbon emitted, and ~$700K of added cost. Extrapolate those figures over the global footprint of this hyperscaler and you have substantial carbon emissions that can be addressed now.  The idea of trailer optimization, which is loading a trailer to capacity, is not going to tackle the emissions issue plaguing the data center industry, but it is an incremental step toward emissions avoidance and is something the entire industry can do today. Steps forward are still progress. Small wins are still wins. #sustainability #projectlogistics #3pl #supplychain #freightmanagement #warehousemanagement DatacenterDynamics DCAC Live

🌟Explore the power of #EdgeAI in transforming the electricity sector ⚡ THE CHALLENGE: 🔋 The rise in distributed energy resources (DERs) connecting to the grid posed a significant challenge for Cuerva, a leading Spanish Energy Operator. They needed a predictive system to anticipate consumption and production trends, preventing grid congestion and overvoltage incidents. THE SOLUTION: 🔮 Barbara facilitated the #EdgePlatform to deploy #AI algorithms for precise demand and generation forecasting incorporating #MLOps methodologies for efficient retraining of algorithms directly at the edge. 🔧 Built on a robust edge infrastructure, our solution employs Edge Nodes (Hardware) powered by Barbara's OS and an extensive technology stack. This design bridges the gap between edge and cloud, facilitating the smooth operation of distributed components. Ready to ride the tech wave? 💡 Dive into the future of energy management with Barbara's cutting-edge technology! Access the #project here: https://hubs.la/Q02lLL_X0 #barbaraedgeai #digitalgrid #substationvirtualization #virtualization #smartgrids #cuerva #barbara Alberto Sánchez Rosa Fernández Jiménez Rafael Arranz Padilla

MIC DROP Michael Kokal! 🖐 🎤 .....no one talks about this 👇 ...... "We found that the manufacturer used ~30% more trucks than were required based on the size of the freight being shipped. In real numbers it was 115 extra trucks, 800 tons of excess carbon emitted, and ~$700K of added cost. Extrapolate those figures over the global footprint of this hyperscaler and you have substantial carbon emissions that can be addressed now." #TruckOptimization -- what reason is there not to do it now? Save big money, save big emissions Super cool 😎 #datacentersolutions

🔌⚡ Chasing Power: A Race Against Time 🌐⏳ Upgrading an old substation today can take longer than the lunar mission Apollo program🌕🚀. It's astonishing but true! The primary hurdle? Poor records of underground assets and outdated technologies ill-equipped for our complex construction environments 🏗️🛠️. As the appetite for power grows with AI expansion 💻, electrification of transportation 🚗, and clean-tech manufacturing 🏭, our energy demands soar. The grid, already maxed out pre-demand surge, is struggling to keep pace ⚡🔄. This pressing issue leads us to a pivotal question: Can we truly decarbonize our grid if slow, outdated construction technologies are the bottleneck blocking our path to meet spiraling electricity needs? Read more about the power demands of AI and data centers https://lnkd.in/erszvXCK #EnergyTransition #Infrastructure #CleanTech #Electrification #AI #Utilities #PowerGrid #Decarbonization #ConstructionTech #3Dmapping💡🌍 2 / 2