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.

Ed Ansett, founder and chairman of i₃ Solutions Group, explains why a whole lifecycle of carbon emissions is crucial to ensure data centre sustainability.

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

Why trends in data centre location and scale make combined heat and power (CHP) a viable option for grid level GHG abatement

i₃ Solutions Group has been appointed Principal Consultant by Kao Data to lead design engineering work at its 16 MW carrier-neutral data centre in Slough, West London.

In this episode, Ed Ansett, chairman of i₃ Solutions Group, talks to JSA Europe’s João Marques Lima on the transformation experienced by the European data centre market over the recent past. He discusses the buoyant market on the continent across not only Tier 1 markets but also 2.

i₃ Solutions Group, a consulting engineering firm specialising in data centres and mission critical environments, has announced the appointment of Luke Neville as Managing Director of the company’s UK operations.

Expert Insight: Ed Ansett, Chairman and Founder, i₃ Solutions Group.

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

Untold riches await whoever can provide long term energy storage without a high GHG tariff, says Ed Ansett, founder and chairman of i₃ Solutions Group, as he examines the complexities of the emerging energy storage technology scene.