Atos and HDF energy to develop the first green hydrogen datacenter

Paris, February twenty five, 2021,

Atos and HDF Vitality now announce their plan to establish a finish conclude-to-conclude very long-time period resolution to provide datacenters with eco-friendly hydrogen generated by renewable electricity. The new resolution by Atos and HDF will be the first out there on the sector for datacenters with large power consuming workloads, with the aim to reveal, in 2023, a first comprehensive creation center operated working with eco-friendly hydrogen.

Atos will deliver a finish conclude-to-conclude eco-friendly datacenter resolution by developing and delivering the components, software program and integration providers that make it feasible to exploit the electric power developed by eco-friendly hydrogen so that it can be utilised in datacenters. This consists of working with the most superior Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to enhance electricity usage. HDF Vitality will provide a power plant, which will deliver predictable and firm electric power many thanks to its superior-driven gas cells. These cells will be driven by eco-friendly hydrogen derived from photovoltaic or wind farms.

A big technological obstacle

Datacenters have superior electricity demands, run 24/7, 365 times a calendar year, and can not experience the slightest electricity flaw. For that reason, the strategy taken by Atos and HDF is particularly bold, as by its very nature, solar or wind electricity is thoroughly clean but intermittent, variable in its creation and unpredictable, generating it an unstable electricity.
At a time when datacenter electricity usage is getting a key problem and it is essential to think about new electricity types, this new resolution from Atos and HDF will enable datacenter operators and cloud operators to anticipate opportunity long term constraints established by regulation authorities and supply a sustainable but responsible resolution to their customers, with no compromise on their enterprise.

Combining knowledge to reduce the carbon footprint

Atos’ resolution consists of a software program layer to forecast the datacenter’s power usage demands and adapt the source (eco-friendly hydrogen) accordingly. This sophisticated procedure is not only primarily based on the datacenter’s action and dimension but also requires into account external facts from the setting, these types of as climate forecasting. To this, Atos brings its HPC knowledge – an place in which it, as the leading supercomputer manufacturer in Europe, has many groundbreaking improvements which restrict the electricity usage of its units[1].

Many thanks to its knowledge in superior-power hydrogen technologies, HDF has made a new form of power plant which is fully stable, non-polluting and aggressive, compared to fossil gas turbines. The availability constraints of the datacenter will be incorporated in the structure of Renewstable® and will enable HDF to supply the best level of support for the most demanding individuals.

“We are continually in search of to establish remedies to leverage our individual sustainable journey in the direction of decarbonization and to assistance our shoppers in theirs. In this viewpoint, the resolution to be made by Atos and HDF will be the first resolution out there on the sector that will enable a comprehensive creation datacenter with very demanding workloads to be operated working with eco-friendly hydrogen. This meets the anticipations not only of operators, but also of the sector and general public authorities.” suggests Arnaud Bertrand, SVP, Head of Approach and Innovation for Large Info & Stability at Atos.

“We are very excited to establish the first-of-its-form eco-friendly datacenter with Atos. HDF is a pioneer in hydrogen-electricity and it is very vital for us to reveal that our Hydrogen-to-Energy remedies are suited for customers with a strategic have to have for a responsible electric power provide. This additional development into the electronic business, in which electricity usage is escalating each individual working day, opens up a appreciable around the globe sector for us. The HDF-Atos partnership presents the first distinctive and sustainable infrastructure for this massive sector.” suggests Damien Havard, CEO at HDF.

This initiative signifies a new and big milestone in Atos’ Net Zero 2028 decarbonization ambition. In 2020, Atos has currently accelerated its datacenter decarbonization plan with encouraging development in electricity performance, which has materialized into a fifteen{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} minimize of international electricity usage of Atos datacenters versus 2019. In addition, carbon-cost-free and renewable electricity now power 55{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} of all of Atos datacenters (versus 32{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} in 2019). On top of that, considering the fact that 2014, Atos has been delivering carbon neutral internet hosting providers to its shoppers by offsetting a hundred{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} of its datacenters’ emissions. Atos also just lately signed the Local climate Neutral Datacenter Pact alongside one another with 35 other organizations and associations from across Europe, emphasizing the industry’s contribution to the ‘European Inexperienced Deal’.

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[1] This sort of as its patented Immediate Liquid Coolling (DLC)  solution, which minimizes international electricity usage in its supercomputers by working with heat water up to 40°C and its Wise Vitality Management Suite, aspect of its HPC Software package Suite, which is utilised to manage electricity even though optimizing general performance, to be certain that clients’ HPC units are as electricity economical as feasible with a minimal carbon footprint.

About Atos
Atos is a international leader in electronic transformation with one zero five,000 staff members and yearly earnings of over € 11 billion. European amount one particular in cybersecurity, cloud and superior-general performance computing, the Group offers tailored conclude-to-conclude remedies for all industries in seventy one nations. A pioneer in decarbonization providers and merchandise, Atos is fully commited to a protected and decarbonized electronic for its shoppers. Atos operates below the brands Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), shown on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.
The goal of Atos is to help structure the long term of the facts place. Its knowledge and providers assistance the development of understanding, instruction and research in a multicultural strategy and add to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the environment, the Group enables its customers and staff members, and associates of societies at big to live, function and establish sustainably, in a harmless and protected facts place.

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About HDF
HDF Vitality is a international pioneer in hydrogen electricity. HDF develops and operates superior-capacity Hydrogen-to-Energy power plants to deliver ongoing or on-need electric power from renewable energies blended with superior-power gas cells.
HDF has made two types of multi-megawatt power plants:

• Renewstable® (Energy TO Energy): stable electric power era from an intermittent renewable source working with locally developed eco-friendly hydrogen.
• Hypower® (Fuel TO Energy): On-need power era from eco-friendly hydrogen from gasoline transportation networks.

HDF has integrated its key gas mobile knowledge in and will fee the world’s first mass creation plant for these superior-power gas cells in France, below the brand name name HDF Marketplace. In addition to electricity, HDF Marketplace will also tackle the rail and maritime markets. HDF is therefore positioned as a impressive accelerator in electricity transition by delivering non-intermittent renewable electric power, correctly adapted to the networks and on-need, which can arrive at up to a hundred{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} of the electricity combine.

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Annick Latour – [email protected] – +33 ()five 56 77 11 11