I₃ Solutions’ new white paper: “The Case for On Premise Hydrogen Production in Data Centres for Greenhouse Gas Abatement Benefits” provides a timely assessment of the feasibility of producing low-carbon hydrogen on-site, without associated carbon emissions.

This exploration of hydrogen as an energy store in data centres describes the hydrogen cycle to assist Variable Renewable Energy (VRE) in conventional data centres and the different storage options and fuel cell power generation infrastructure types.

Using VRE for hydrogen production presents an opportunity for carbon savings through carbon arbitrage including:

Utilizing additional grid electricity during periods of low grid carbon intensity to produce and store hydrogen.
Using stored on-site hydrogen to offset grid electricity consumption during periods of high carbon intensity.
The method undertakes a calculation using historical data sets for grid carbon intensity. The calculation simulates the response of a hydrogen-enabled notional data centre operated and controlled with the objective of offsetting grid power consumption using hydrogen energy storage and local power regeneration.
Such strategies lead to significant carbon reductions, particularly for medium to large hyperscale data centres (up to 1GW).

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