Haffner Energy, a renewable energy innovative solutions provider, is prioritising the decarbonisation of data centers.
The growth of cloud computing, and especially artificial intelligence, is driving an unprecedented surge in demand for computing capacity – and, in turn, for electricity – even as data centers face growing criticism over their carbon footprint, water consumption, and the strain they place on power grids.
Access to sufficient electrical power has become a decisive factor in siting decisions and deployment timelines for new computing capacity.
As such, Haffner Energy has launched a new energy offering dedicated to data centers, now available and already the subject of initial commercial proposals.
It aims to address three challenges that have become critical to data center development: quickly securing high electrical power at high-efficiency without adding further strain on the grid, decarbonizing their energy supply, and managing their water needs.
The latest offering builds on the modular architecture developed under CORE100, and on its new C-iB variant, designed for high-power, multi-module installations.
Philippe Haffner, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, says data centers are an especially attractive opportunity for Haffner Energy, precisely because our value proposition is so differentiated.
A single project can call for more than 10 modules, with each module integrated into a full-service data center offering generating about €6 million in revenue – nearly three times what a module used solely for syngas production would bring in.
That additional revenue doesn’t require a proportional increase in our industrial capacity, since some of the complementary equipment is supplied by specialized partners. Our offering thus addresses the market’s three key requirements: availability, speed of deployment, and decarbonization, he highlighted.
Haffner Energy’s Decentralised Solution
Haffner Energy offers a decentralized solution: generating renewable, dispatchable, round-the-clock, and cost-competitive electricity near data centers, from local residual biomass.
The solution can operate alongside the power grid and substantially reduce the power that must be drawn from it, allowing data center growth to proceed without necessarily waiting for grid upgrades sized for its final power requirements.
The architecture is supplemented by a limited, on-demand supply of natural gas that steps in during exceptional periods of unavailability. This combination is designed to guarantee the data center an energy availability above 99.995 percent – the level required for Tier IV infrastructure.
The configuration also allows maintenance to be performed sequentially while the other modules remain in production, limiting the impact of any unplanned equipment outage.
Standardization, together with the repeated use of identical equipment, further helps reduce lead times and costs.
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