Intelligent power management company Eaton, iand Siemens Energy, have announced a fast-track approach to building data centers with integrated onsite power. They will address urgent market needs by offering reliable grid-independent energy supplies and standardized modular systems to help with swift data center construction and deployment.
The collaboration will enable simultaneous construction of data centers and associated on-site power generation with grid connection and integrating renewables to meet regional regulatory requirements, if required. This will provide data center owners and developers with choices they need to build and run new data centers.
Siemens Energy’s modular and scalable power plant concept is tailored to the specific needs of operators. The standard configuration generates 500 MW of electricity featuring highly efficient SGT-800 gas turbines, redundancy and more battery storage systems, ensuring the highest reliability.
Based on a modular approach, the size of the plant can be scaled up and down. , it can also operate in a carbon-neutral way, provided hydrogen is available and part of the data center’s sustainability strategy. The Siemens Energy concept also includes an optional emission-free clean air grid connection that can be installed during construction or as a retrofit. This feature would enable data centers to provide grid services.
Eaton will provide customers with electrical equipment such as medium voltage switchgear, low voltage switchgear, UPS, busways, structural support, racks and containment systems, engineering services and the software offerings needed to protect and enable IT loads from the medium-voltage grid to the chip and help accelerate building and commissioning data centers with skidded and modular designs.
“Our power plant design is built with redundancy, eliminating the need for backup diesel generators, and reducing CO2 emissions by about 50 percent,” said Andreas Pistauer, Global Head of Sales at Siemens Energy’s Gas Services Business Area.
