Increased Efficiency with Decreased CAPEX and OPEX
Data centers and e-Fuel production facilities often seek similar power and interconnection arrangements. At StormFisher, we see this as a unique opportunity to be as partners in project development to allow efficiencies of scale and support colocation and decarbonization.
Data centers are under increasing regulatory and public pressure to lower emissions and find renewable power sources to fuel their high energy demand. Similarly, e-Fuel production facilities require renewable power sources, such as wind and solar, to power their hydrogen electrolysis and subsequent processing to produce their hydrocarbon product.
Colocation and collaboration between the two industrial installation loads allows for sharing of development cost and expertise in renewable power sourcing. This can help achieve an economy of scale in any new renewable power source construction and operation. As data centres are significantly larger in scale than e-Fuel production facilities, they can occupy the same land in a collaborative approach without issue.
Data centers require a constant source of electricity to maintain 100% uptime of their servers. Renewable power sources, dependent on natural climate fluctuations, can be intermittent. An e-Fuel production facility is designed to handle the volatile nature of renewable power sources, converting renewable electrons into hydrogen-derived fuels. The facility, in a sense, can act as an intermediate buffer for a data center, providing mission critical backup fuel resources where and if required.
e-Fuel production facilities and data centers use similar resources in their development and operations including land, water, power, and logistics. By collaboration during the design and development stages, the two can find common areas to combine forces and ultimately lower capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operational expenditure (OPEX).
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