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On-Site Energy Solutions for Sustainable and Reliable Data Centers: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
With the rapid growth in demand, data centers are increasingly looking for on-site power generation and storage solutions to relieve grid constraints and navigate utility interconnection delays. Innovative technologies such as advanced on-site generation, power-electronic-based systems, and advanced control and monitoring platforms offer promising pathways to enhance reliability and sustainability. These solutions are critical in supporting the evolution of next-generation data centers, which face escalating energy demands driven by AI workloads. This panel will explore a range of on-site energy solutions, showcase real-world use cases in the data center context, and discuss how they can leverage these technologies to manage growing, AI-driven energy loads.
Panelists will discuss:
- Nature of the load growth, including AI workloads that are driving unprecedented spikes in energy demand and changing load profiles.
- Technical specification and technology requirements for data centers onsite generation (Response time requirements, ramp-rate, etc.)
- On-site solutions scalability with multi-megawatt campuses and evolving AI-driven demand
- Identifying areas where closer coordination with utilities, OEMs, and regulators can reduce friction and accelerate innovation.
