With green credentials that include the UK’s lowest carbon energy intensity, increasing access to RERs, low-cost land and political backing, are the pieces in place for Scotland to fulfil its data centre sector potential?

Whether it is microgrids, distributed energy resources (DERs), co-gen, grid-interactive, islanded or integrated (decoupled or coupled) – there is growing consensus that data centres will require onsite or locally generated power delivered through microgrids.

To say microgrids will become a feature of future large data centre design, would be to overlook the idea that technically most data centres of scale can be configured to operate as local microgrids.

Here, Ed Ansett, Founder of i3 Solutions, discusses everything you need to know about microgrids. This conversation covers how data centres will require onsite, or locally generated power delivered through microgrids.

The microgrid discussion in the data centre sector is gathering pace, there is growing consensus that data centres will require onsite or locally generated power delivered through microgrids.

Ed Ansett, Chairman at i3 Solutions, explains why the industry needs a greater understanding of fuel cells to drive wider adoption of a technology, which could accelerate the effectiveness of the sector’s GHG Abatement efforts.

Ed Ansett, Chairman at i3 Solutions, talks us through his career and how data centre design continues to evolve. Ed shares how he started his career in engineering, and why he made the decision to establish i3 Solutions.

Digital Infra Xchange CXO Summit 2023: Understanding the Journey to Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Heat Reuse & Powering digital infrastructure.

i3 Solutions Group has been issued two patents by the USPTO (US Patent and Trademark Office) for its Adaptable Redundant Power (ARP) topology control solution for mission-critical electrical power systems.

By Ed Ansett, Chairman and Founder, i3 Solutions Group.

With new mandates such as SECR (Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting) and CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) obliging data centre companies to report their sustainability efforts, a New GHG Abatement Group White Paper is published to help data centre operators work towards the ultimate goal of sustainable green energy storage.

By Ed Ansett, Chairman and Founder, i3 Solutions Group.

Ed Ansett, chairman and founder, i₃ Solutions Group explains how data centre power demand is set to grow, leading to increasing public awareness and why it requires a response through greater grid interactivity.

Data Centre power demand is set to grow, leading to increasing public awareness – it requires a response through greater grid interactivity. How can the industry start to address public…

Global emissions from new build projects are at record levels. Consequently, construction is moving further away from, not closer to, net-zero buildings.

Ed Ansett, Chairman and Founder, i₃ Solutions Group, discusses the sustainability benefits of Demand Response (DR) and how it provides data centre technical leaders with a ethod to generate additional revenue from their operations.

Ed Ansett of i₃ Solutions identifies and evaluates the real embodied carbon cost of a data centre

Global emissions from new-build projects are at record levels. Consequently, construction is moving further away from, not closer to, net zero buildings.