Atos and HDF energy to develop the first green hydrogen datacenter
Paris, February twenty five, 2021,
Atos and HDF Energy right now announce their program to create a comprehensive conclusion-to-conclusion extended-time period alternative to offer datacenters with green hydrogen generated by renewable electrical power. The new alternative by Atos and HDF will be the initially obtainable on the market for datacenters with significant ability consuming workloads, with the purpose to display, in 2023, a initially total production heart operated working with green hydrogen.
Atos will give a comprehensive conclusion-to-conclusion green datacenter alternative by building and supplying the components, program and integration expert services that make it possible to exploit the electricity made by green hydrogen so that it can be made use of in datacenters. This consists of working with the most state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems to improve electrical power usage. HDF Energy will offer a ability plant, which will give predictable and organization electricity many thanks to its large-run gas cells. These cells will be run by green hydrogen derived from photovoltaic or wind farms.
A big technological problem
Datacenters have large electrical power wants, operate 24/7, 365 days a 12 months, and cannot practical experience the slightest electrical power flaw. Consequently, the tactic taken by Atos and HDF is significantly ambitious, as by its quite character, solar or wind electrical power is clean but intermittent, variable in its production and unpredictable, producing it an unstable electrical power.
At a time when datacenter electrical power usage is turning into a key difficulty and it is critical to contemplate new electrical power models, this new alternative from Atos and HDF will permit datacenter operators and cloud operators to anticipate probable potential constraints established by regulation authorities and supply a sustainable but trusted alternative to their buyers, with no compromise on their organization.
Combining expertise to minimize the carbon footprint
Atos’ alternative consists of a program layer to forecast the datacenter’s ability usage wants and adapt the source (green hydrogen) accordingly. This sophisticated approach is not only based on the datacenter’s action and dimension but also normally takes into account exterior info from the atmosphere, these as weather forecasting. To this, Atos provides its HPC expertise – an location in which it, as the primary supercomputer manufacturer in Europe, has numerous groundbreaking innovations which limit the electrical power usage of its units[1].
Thanks to its expertise in large-ability hydrogen systems, HDF has created a new form of ability plant which is completely secure, non-polluting and aggressive, when compared to fossil gas turbines. The availability constraints of the datacenter will be included in the design of Renewstable® and will permit HDF to supply the highest stage of services for the most demanding consumers.
“We are consistently trying to find to create options to leverage our very own sustainable journey to decarbonization and to guidance our shoppers in theirs. In this perspective, the alternative to be created by Atos and HDF will be the initially alternative obtainable on the market that will permit a total production datacenter with quite demanding workloads to be operated working with green hydrogen. This fulfills the expectations not only of operators, but also of the market and community authorities.” claims Arnaud Bertrand, SVP, Head of Tactic and Innovation for Huge Data & Safety at Atos.
“We are quite thrilled to create the initially-of-its-type green datacenter with Atos. HDF is a pioneer in hydrogen-electrical power and it is quite critical for us to display that our Hydrogen-to-Electricity options are suited for buyers with a strategic have to have for a trusted electricity offer. This further more advancement into the digital market, exactly where electrical power usage is growing each working day, opens up a sizeable around the world market for us. The HDF-Atos partnership delivers the initially distinctive and sustainable infrastructure for this substantial market.” claims Damien Havard, CEO at HDF.
This initiative signifies a new and big milestone in Atos’ Internet Zero 2028 decarbonization ambition. In 2020, Atos has now accelerated its datacenter decarbonization system with encouraging development in electrical power efficiency, which has materialized into a fifteen% lessen of world wide electrical power usage of Atos datacenters versus 2019. In addition, carbon-no cost and renewable electrical power now ability fifty five% of all of Atos datacenters (versus 32% in 2019). Also, considering that 2014, Atos has been supplying carbon neutral web hosting expert services to its shoppers by offsetting a hundred% of its datacenters’ emissions. Atos also just lately signed the Local weather Neutral Datacenter Pact collectively with 35 other businesses and associations from throughout Europe, emphasizing the industry’s contribution to the ‘European Inexperienced Deal’.
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[1] This kind of as its patented Direct Liquid Coolling (DLC) solution, which minimizes world wide electrical power usage in its supercomputers by working with heat water up to 40°C and its Wise Energy Management Suite, element of its HPC Computer software Suite, which is made use of to control electrical power whilst optimizing overall performance, to ensure that clients’ HPC units are as electrical power efficient as possible with a confined carbon footprint.
About Atos
Atos is a world wide chief in digital transformation with one hundred and five,000 employees and yearly earnings of in excess of € 11 billion. European selection just one in cybersecurity, cloud and large-overall performance computing, the Group supplies tailor-made conclusion-to-conclusion options for all industries in seventy one nations. A pioneer in decarbonization expert services and products, Atos is fully commited to a secure and decarbonized digital for its shoppers. Atos operates less than the brand names Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), detailed on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.
The reason of Atos is to assistance design the potential of the data room. Its expertise and expert services guidance the advancement of information, training and analysis in a multicultural tactic and lead to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the entire world, the Group enables its buyers and employees, and members of societies at substantial to stay, function and create sustainably, in a secure and secure data room.
Atos Push call
Lucie Duchateau – [email protected] – +33 ()7 62 85 35 ten
About HDF
HDF Energy is a world wide pioneer in hydrogen electrical power. HDF develops and operates large-potential Hydrogen-to-Electricity ability vegetation to give ongoing or on-demand from customers electricity from renewable energies merged with lar
ge-ability gas cells.
HDF has created two models of multi-megawatt ability vegetation:
- Renewstable® (Electricity TO Electricity): secure electricity technology from an intermittent renewable resource working with locally made green hydrogen.
- Hypower® (Gasoline TO Electricity): On-demand from customers ability technology from green hydrogen from gas transportation networks.
HDF has built-in its key gas mobile expertise in and will commission the world’s initially mass production plant for these large-ability gas cells in France, less than the model name HDF Business. In addition to electrical power, HDF Business will also tackle the rail and maritime markets. HDF is as a result positioned as a effective accelerator in electrical power transition by supplying non-intermittent renewable electricity, completely tailored to the networks and on-demand from customers, which can reach up to a hundred% of the electrical power combine.
HDF Push call
Annick Latour – interaction@hdf-electrical power.com – +33 ()5 fifty six seventy seven 11 11
