Atos and HDF energy to develop the first green hydrogen datacenter

Paris, February 25, 2021,

Atos and HDF Electricity nowadays announce their prepare to produce a comprehensive end-to-end extensive-time period option to source datacenters with green hydrogen created by renewable electrical power. The new option by Atos and HDF will be the to start with accessible on the marketplace for datacenters with large electrical power consuming workloads, with the intention to exhibit, in 2023, a to start with comprehensive output heart operated making use of green hydrogen.

Atos will supply a comprehensive end-to-end green datacenter option by designing and delivering the components, software package and integration companies that make it feasible to exploit the energy created by green hydrogen so that it can be made use of in datacenters. This contains making use of the most advanced Synthetic Intelligence (AI) systems to optimize electrical power consumption. HDF Electricity will source a electrical power plant, which will supply predictable and firm energy thanks to its significant-run gas cells. These cells will be run by green hydrogen derived from photovoltaic or wind farms.

A major technological obstacle

Datacenters have significant electrical power requires, operate 24/seven, 365 times a calendar year, and simply cannot practical experience the slightest electrical power flaw. Consequently, the approach taken by Atos and HDF is significantly formidable, as by its quite character, photo voltaic or wind electrical power is clean but intermittent, variable in its output and unpredictable, generating it an unstable electrical power.
At a time when datacenter electrical power consumption is turning out to be a key challenge and it is critical to contemplate new electrical power designs, this new option from Atos and HDF will allow datacenter operators and cloud operators to foresee potential long run constraints established by regulation authorities and provide a sustainable but reputable option to their buyers, with no compromise on their company.

Combining know-how to minimize the carbon footprint

Atos’ option contains a software package layer to predict the datacenter’s electrical power consumption requires and adapt the useful resource (green hydrogen) accordingly. This sophisticated process is not only dependent on the datacenter’s action and measurement but also takes into account exterior facts from the natural environment, these types of as weather conditions forecasting. To this, Atos provides its HPC know-how – an area in which it, as the major supercomputer manufacturer in Europe, has many groundbreaking improvements which limit the electrical power consumption of its units[one].

Many thanks to its know-how in significant-electrical power hydrogen systems, HDF has formulated a new form of electrical power plant which is fully stable, non-polluting and aggressive, when compared to fossil gas generators. The availability constraints of the datacenter will be included in the layout of Renewstable® and will allow HDF to provide the best amount of services for the most demanding buyers.

“We are continually seeking to produce alternatives to leverage our personal sustainable journey towards decarbonization and to help our purchasers in theirs. In this point of view, the option to be formulated by Atos and HDF will be the to start with option accessible on the marketplace that will allow a comprehensive output datacenter with quite demanding workloads to be operated making use of green hydrogen. This meets the expectations not only of operators, but also of the marketplace and community authorities.” suggests Arnaud Bertrand, SVP, Head of Strategy and Innovation for Significant Information & Stability at Atos.

“We are quite fired up to produce the to start with-of-its-type green datacenter with Atos. HDF is a pioneer in hydrogen-electrical power and it is quite vital for us to exhibit that our Hydrogen-to-Electric power alternatives are ideal for buyers with a strategic want for a reputable energy source. This more growth into the digital industry, where electrical power consumption is expanding each individual working day, opens up a sizeable around the globe marketplace for us. The HDF-Atos partnership presents the to start with distinctive and sustainable infrastructure for this big marketplace.” suggests Damien Havard, CEO at HDF.

This initiative signifies a new and major milestone in Atos’ Web Zero 2028 decarbonization ambition. In 2020, Atos has previously accelerated its datacenter decarbonization method with encouraging development in electrical power efficiency, which has materialized into a fifteen% lessen of global electrical power consumption of Atos datacenters vs . 2019. In addition, carbon-totally free and renewable electrical power now electrical power 55% of all of Atos datacenters (vs . 32% in 2019). Moreover, considering that 2014, Atos has been delivering carbon neutral hosting companies to its purchasers by offsetting one hundred% of its datacenters’ emissions. Atos also recently signed the Climate Neutral Datacenter Pact alongside one another with 35 other organizations and associations from across Europe, emphasizing the industry’s contribution to the ‘European Environmentally friendly Deal’.

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[one] These types of as its patented Direct Liquid Coolling (DLC)  solution, which minimizes global electrical power consumption in its supercomputers by making use of warm drinking water up to 40°C and its Good Electricity Management Suite, aspect of its HPC Application Suite, which is made use of to handle electrical power while optimizing effectiveness, to assure that clients’ HPC units are as electrical power economical as feasible with a minimal carbon footprint.

 

About Atos
Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with 105,000 staff members and annual earnings of about € eleven billion. European amount a person in cybersecurity, cloud and significant-effectiveness computing, the Group supplies tailored end-to-end alternatives for all industries in seventy one nations around the world. A pioneer in decarbonization companies and products, Atos is committed to a secure and decarbonized digital for its purchasers. Atos operates under the brands Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the CAC40 Paris stock index.
The objective of Atos is to aid layout the long run of the data room. Its know-how and companies help the growth of understanding, education and study in a multicultural approach and add to the growth of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the environment, the Group enables its buyers and staff members, and users of societies at large to reside, function and produce sustainably, in a safe and secure data room.

Atos Press call
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About HDF
HDF Electricity is a global pioneer in hydrogen electrical power. HDF develops and operates significant-ability Hydrogen-to-Electric power electrical power crops to supply constant or on-need energy from renewable energies blended with significant-electrical power gas cells.
HDF has formulated two designs of multi-megawatt electrical power crops:

• Renewstable® (Electric power TO Electric power): stable energy technology from an intermittent renewable supply making use of regionally created green hydrogen.
• Hypower® (Gas TO Electric power): On-need electrical power technology from green hydrogen from gasoline transportation networks.

HDF has integrated its key gas mobile know-how in and will fee the world’s to start with mass output plant for these significant-electrical power gas cells in France, under the brand name name HDF Market. In addition to electrical power, HDF Market will also address the rail and maritime marketplaces. HDF is as a result positioned as a impressive accelerator in electrical power transition by delivering non-intermittent renewable energy, flawlessly tailored to the networks and on-need, which can access up to one hundred% of the electrical power blend.

HDF Press call
Annick Latour – interaction@hdf-electrical power.com – +33 ()5 56 77 eleven eleven