{"id":1255,"date":"2021-02-03T14:27:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T06:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powerpartners-awi.com\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2024-01-12T03:23:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T03:23:07","slug":"google-thinks-data-centers-should-anchor-a-carbon-free-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.powerpartners-awi.com\/uat\/google-thinks-data-centers-should-anchor-a-carbon-free-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS : Google Thinks Data Centers, Armed With Batteries, Should \u2018Anchor\u2019 a Carbon-Free Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.powerpartners-awi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/belgium.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1257\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; color: #808080;\"><em>Google&#8217;s data center in St. Ghislain, Belgium<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A large-scale battery plant at its Belgium data center will provide backup power and help balance the grid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Google is hoping to kill two birds with one stone (and potentially a third one) in a pilot it\u2019s about to launch at its data center campus in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Google data center team in St. Ghislain will use lithium-ion batteries instead of a diesel generator as power backup for 3MW of live, production computing load \u2013 a first for Google.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mainly, they hope to demonstrate that:<br \/>\na) batteries are a viable replacement for traditional data center backup generators, and<br \/>\nb) a data center outfitted with a large-scale energy storage plant can help balance its local electrical grid, Maud Texier, Google\u2019s carbon free energy lead, told us.<\/p>\n<p><em><span><strong>For full news article, read from <\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s data center in St. Ghislain, Belgium A large-scale battery plant at its Belgium data center will provide backup power and help balance the grid. Google is hoping to kill two birds with one stone (and potentially a third one) in a pilot it\u2019s about to launch at its data center campus in Belgium. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[95,96,97,98,99,93,94],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-carbonfree","tag-emergencypower","tag-energy","tag-generators","tag-power","tag-backuppower","tag-battery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powerpartners-awi.com\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powerpartners-awi.com\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powerpartners-awi.com\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powerpartners-awi.com\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powerpartners-awi.com\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.powerpartners-awi.com\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"https:\/\/www.powerpartners-awi.com\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powerpartners-awi.com\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powerpartners-awi.com\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powerpartners-awi.com\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powerpartners-awi.com\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}