Paris, February twenty five, 2021,
Atos and HDF Vitality now announce their strategy to produce a full close-to-close extended-phrase option to supply datacenters with inexperienced hydrogen created by renewable power. The new option by Atos and HDF will be the to start with accessible on the sector for datacenters with hefty ability consuming workloads, with the goal to display, in 2023, a to start with full generation center operated using inexperienced hydrogen.
Atos will supply a full close-to-close inexperienced datacenter option by developing and furnishing the components, software and integration companies that make it achievable to exploit the electric power made by inexperienced hydrogen so that it can be utilised in datacenters. This involves using the most sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to enhance power consumption. HDF Vitality will supply a ability plant, which will supply predictable and business electric power many thanks to its higher-powered gas cells. These cells will be powered by inexperienced hydrogen derived from photovoltaic or wind farms.
A big technological obstacle
Datacenters have higher power needs, function 24/seven, 365 days a yr, and simply cannot knowledge the slightest power flaw. Hence, the strategy taken by Atos and HDF is significantly formidable, as by its extremely character, photo voltaic or wind power is thoroughly clean but intermittent, variable in its generation and unpredictable, creating it an unstable power.
At a time when datacenter power consumption is getting to be a key difficulty and it is important to contemplate new power versions, this new option from Atos and HDF will permit datacenter operators and cloud operators to anticipate probable long term constraints established by regulation authorities and offer you a sustainable but trustworthy option to their customers, with no compromise on their enterprise.
Combining experience to lower the carbon footprint
Atos’ option involves a software layer to forecast the datacenter’s ability consumption needs and adapt the resource (inexperienced hydrogen) appropriately. This sophisticated procedure is not only based mostly on the datacenter’s exercise and size but also requires into account external details from the environment, this sort of as weather forecasting. To this, Atos delivers its HPC experience – an area in which it, as the top supercomputer company in Europe, has various groundbreaking improvements which limit the power consumption of its methods[one].
Many thanks to its experience in higher-ability hydrogen technologies, HDF has designed a new kind of ability plant which is fully secure, non-polluting and competitive, compared to fossil gas turbines. The availability constraints of the datacenter will be included in the style of Renewstable® and will permit HDF to offer you the maximum degree of company for the most demanding shoppers.
“We are continually searching for to produce options to leverage our possess sustainable journey towards decarbonization and to aid our consumers in theirs. In this perspective, the option to be designed by Atos and HDF will be the to start with option accessible on the sector that will permit a full generation datacenter with extremely demanding workloads to be operated using inexperienced hydrogen. This meets the expectations not only of operators, but also of the sector and public authorities.” states Arnaud Bertrand, SVP, Head of Strategy and Innovation for Significant Facts & Stability at Atos.
“We are extremely psyched to produce the to start with-of-its-type inexperienced datacenter with Atos. HDF is a pioneer in hydrogen-power and it is extremely important for us to display that our Hydrogen-to-Electricity options are appropriate for customers with a strategic have to have for a trustworthy electric power supply. This further more advancement into the electronic industry, exactly where power consumption is increasing every single day, opens up a sizeable throughout the world sector for us. The HDF-Atos partnership offers the to start with exclusive and sustainable infrastructure for this big sector.” states Damien Havard, CEO at HDF.
This initiative signifies a new and big milestone in Atos’ Web Zero 2028 decarbonization ambition. In 2020, Atos has already accelerated its datacenter decarbonization plan with encouraging progress in power effectiveness, which has materialized into a fifteen{312eb768b2a7ccb699e02fa64aff7eccd2b9f51f6a579147b7ed58dbcded82a2} lessen of world wide power consumption of Atos datacenters vs . 2019. In addition, carbon-absolutely free and renewable power now ability fifty five{312eb768b2a7ccb699e02fa64aff7eccd2b9f51f6a579147b7ed58dbcded82a2} of all of Atos datacenters (vs . 32{312eb768b2a7ccb699e02fa64aff7eccd2b9f51f6a579147b7ed58dbcded82a2} in 2019). Also, given that 2014, Atos has been furnishing carbon neutral hosting companies to its consumers by offsetting a hundred{312eb768b2a7ccb699e02fa64aff7eccd2b9f51f6a579147b7ed58dbcded82a2} of its datacenters’ emissions. Atos also lately signed the Local climate Neutral Datacenter Pact jointly with 35 other corporations and associations from across Europe, emphasizing the industry’s contribution to the ‘European Environmentally friendly Deal’.
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[one] These kinds of as its patented Immediate Liquid Coolling (DLC) solution, which minimizes world wide power consumption in its supercomputers by using warm water up to 40°C and its Clever Vitality Administration Suite, section of its HPC Software package Suite, which is utilised to regulate power whilst optimizing performance, to guarantee that clients’ HPC methods are as power successful as achievable with a limited carbon footprint.
About Atos
Atos is a world wide leader in electronic transformation with 105,000 staff members and once-a-year profits of around € 11 billion. European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and higher-performance computing, the Group supplies customized close-to-close options for all industries in seventy one nations around the world. A pioneer in decarbonization companies and products, Atos is committed to a protected and decarbonized electronic for its consumers. Atos operates below the models Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), mentioned on the CAC40 Paris stock index.
The purpose of Atos is to help style the long term of the info house. Its experience and companies aid the advancement of awareness, education and investigate in a multicultural strategy and add to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the earth, the Group permits its customers and staff members, and members of societies at substantial to are living, function and produce sustainably, in a harmless and protected info house.
Atos Push get in touch with
Lucie Duchateau – [email protected] – +33 ()seven 62 eighty five 35 10
About HDF
HDF Vitality is a world wide pioneer in hydrogen power. HDF develops and operates higher-capacity Hy
drogen-to-Electricity ability crops to supply constant or on-desire electric power from renewable energies mixed with higher-ability gas cells.
HDF has designed two versions of multi-megawatt ability crops:
- Renewstable® (Electricity TO Electricity): secure electric power era from an intermittent renewable resource using regionally made inexperienced hydrogen.
- Hypower® (Fuel TO Electricity): On-desire ability era from inexperienced hydrogen from gas transportation networks.
HDF has built-in its key gas cell experience in and will fee the world’s to start with mass generation plant for these higher-ability gas cells in France, below the brand name identify HDF Industry. In addition to power, HDF Industry will also address the rail and maritime marketplaces. HDF is consequently positioned as a highly effective accelerator in power changeover by furnishing non-intermittent renewable electric power, correctly adapted to the networks and on-desire, which can attain up to a hundred{312eb768b2a7ccb699e02fa64aff7eccd2b9f51f6a579147b7ed58dbcded82a2} of the power mix.
HDF Push get in touch with
Annick Latour – [email protected] – +33 ()5 fifty six 77 11 11