Atos and HDF energy to develop the first green hydrogen datacenter

Paris, February twenty five, 2021,

Atos and HDF Electricity right now announce their plan to produce a entire conclusion-to-conclusion extended-term resolution to source datacenters with environmentally friendly hydrogen generated by renewable energy. The new resolution by Atos and HDF will be the initially offered on the current market for datacenters with large electricity consuming workloads, with the purpose to display, in 2023, a initially full creation center operated using environmentally friendly hydrogen.

Atos will deliver a entire conclusion-to-conclusion environmentally friendly datacenter resolution by developing and offering the hardware, software program and integration expert services that make it doable to exploit the electrical energy generated by environmentally friendly hydrogen so that it can be applied in datacenters. This features using the most highly developed Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems to optimize energy use. HDF Electricity will source a electricity plant, which will deliver predictable and organization electrical energy many thanks to its significant-driven fuel cells. These cells will be driven by environmentally friendly hydrogen derived from photovoltaic or wind farms.

A important technological problem

Datacenters have significant energy desires, run 24/7, 365 days a calendar year, and cannot knowledge the slightest energy flaw. For that reason, the approach taken by Atos and HDF is notably formidable, as by its really nature, solar or wind energy is clear but intermittent, variable in its creation and unpredictable, creating it an unstable energy.
At a time when datacenter energy use is becoming a vital difficulty and it is essential to consider new energy designs, this new resolution from Atos and HDF will allow datacenter operators and cloud operators to anticipate prospective long term constraints established by regulation authorities and supply a sustainable but trusted resolution to their consumers, with no compromise on their business.

Combining skills to cut down the carbon footprint

Atos’ resolution features a software program layer to predict the datacenter’s electricity use desires and adapt the useful resource (environmentally friendly hydrogen) appropriately. This intricate system is not only based mostly on the datacenter’s action and size but also normally takes into account exterior info from the surroundings, this kind of as climate forecasting. To this, Atos provides its HPC skills – an spot in which it, as the primary supercomputer manufacturer in Europe, has many groundbreaking improvements which limit the energy use of its units[one].

Thanks to its skills in significant-electricity hydrogen systems, HDF has created a new kind of electricity plant which is totally secure, non-polluting and competitive, compared to fossil fuel generators. The availability constraints of the datacenter will be integrated in the style of Renewstable® and will allow HDF to supply the highest amount of support for the most demanding individuals.

“We are continuously looking for to produce alternatives to leverage our personal sustainable journey in the direction of decarbonization and to guidance our customers in theirs. In this viewpoint, the resolution to be created by Atos and HDF will be the initially resolution offered on the current market that will allow a full creation datacenter with really demanding workloads to be operated using environmentally friendly hydrogen. This fulfills the anticipations not only of operators, but also of the current market and public authorities.” suggests Arnaud Bertrand, SVP, Head of Tactic and Innovation for Huge Info & Security at Atos.

“We are really energized to produce the initially-of-its-kind environmentally friendly datacenter with Atos. HDF is a pioneer in hydrogen-energy and it is really vital for us to display that our Hydrogen-to-Energy alternatives are suited for consumers with a strategic need to have for a trusted electrical energy source. This even more progress into the digital marketplace, exactly where energy use is increasing every single working day, opens up a significant around the world current market for us. The HDF-Atos partnership presents the initially exceptional and sustainable infrastructure for this enormous current market.” suggests Damien Havard, CEO at HDF.

This initiative represents a new and important milestone in Atos’ Web Zero 2028 decarbonization ambition. In 2020, Atos has previously accelerated its datacenter decarbonization plan with encouraging development in energy effectiveness, which has materialized into a fifteen% lower of world wide energy use of Atos datacenters vs . 2019. In addition, carbon-absolutely free and renewable energy now electricity 55% of all of Atos datacenters (vs . 32% in 2019). Furthermore, due to the fact 2014, Atos has been offering carbon neutral hosting expert services to its customers by offsetting a hundred% of its datacenters’ emissions. Atos also a short while ago signed the Local climate Neutral Datacenter Pact with each other with 35 other firms and associations from across Europe, emphasizing the industry’s contribution to the ‘European Green Deal’.

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[one] This kind of as its patented Direct Liquid Coolling (DLC)  solution, which minimizes world wide energy use in its supercomputers by using warm water up to 40°C and its Intelligent Electricity Administration Suite, aspect of its HPC Software program Suite, which is applied to manage energy whilst optimizing efficiency, to make sure that clients’ HPC units are as energy effective as doable with a confined carbon footprint.

About Atos
Atos is a world wide chief in digital transformation with one hundred and five,000 personnel and once-a-year revenue of around € eleven billion. European number just one in cybersecurity, cloud and significant-efficiency computing, the Team delivers tailor-made conclusion-to-conclusion alternatives for all industries in 71 international locations. A pioneer in decarbonization expert services and products, Atos is dedicated to a safe and decarbonized digital for its customers. Atos operates underneath the manufacturers Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.
The objective of Atos is to aid style the long term of the data room. Its skills and expert services guidance the progress of awareness, instruction and study in a multicultural approach and lead to the progress of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the earth, the Team enables its consumers and personnel, and customers of societies at massive to live, get the job done and produce sustainably, in a harmless and safe data room.

Atos Push speak to
Lucie Duchateau – [email protected] – +33 ()7 62 eighty five 35 10

About HDF
HDF Electricity is a world wide pioneer in hydrogen energy. HDF develops and operates significant-potential Hydrogen-to-Energy electricity crops to deliver constant or on-demand from customers electrical energy from renewable energies blended with significant-electricity fuel cells.
HDF has created two designs of multi-megawatt electricity crops:

• Renewstable® (Energy TO Energy): secure electrical energy generation from an intermittent renewable resource using domestically generated environmentally friendly hydrogen.
• Hypower® (Fuel TO Energy): On-demand from customers electricity generation from environmentally friendly hydrogen from gasoline transportation networks.

HDF has built-in its vital fuel mobile skills in and will fee the world’s initially mass creation plant for these significant-electricity fuel cells in France, underneath the manufacturer identify HDF Marketplace. In addition to energy, HDF Marketplace will also tackle the rail and maritime markets. HDF is hence positioned as a impressive accelerator in energy changeover by offering non-intermittent renewable electrical energy, flawlessly adapted to the networks and on-demand from customers, which can access up to a hundred% of the energy blend.

HDF Push speak to
Annick Latour – [email protected] – +33 ()five 56 77 eleven eleven