The economics of a $1 billion data center project at the site of a former Stanley Black & Decker manufacturing plant in New Britain, Connecticut got a substantial boost recently when state venture capital arm Connecticut Ventures granted the developer, EIP Investments, a $55.2 million sales and use tax exemption. It's fair to say that states across the US are keen to attract data center operators and investment, and that leading data center companies have been keen to make use of renewable energy, in cases pushing utilities, legislators and regulators to make it possible for them to do so. We’re looking to take what we do here, grow it throughout this region, scale it as we continue to grow solar and tenants choosing to co-locate with us, and then take it global.Īttracting renewable energy, data center investment “What we are doing is that we are taking going off-grid by becoming self-sustainable, which means that we’re no longer adding to the rolling blackout issues. “It’s also only becoming a bigger burden on the grid,” Briggs pointed out. It’s significant and it’s right here in the heart of Mohave County.”ĭata center energy demand also poses challenges for grid operators.
That electricity would otherwise be coming from coal, oil or natural gas, well now it’s coming from natural sunlight. "Those servers consume a lot of electricity. We are going to be running 165,000 servers approximate," Bloom was quoted. Having 340 megawatts represents 165 metric tons of carbon that are coming out of the air. “When you talk about moving at the speed of business, we are setting land speed records in doing so. It's no surprise that data centers consume lots of energy, or that the proportion of electricity they consume has been rising fast as data center operators and services providers seek to connect every organization and human being on the planet with multiple connections to the "cloud." So does the potential to add to greenhouse gas emissions and environmental pollution if that electricity is sourced from fossil-fuel power plants.
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