ENERGY & POWER

This technology is designed to scale up to

Scaling hydrogen for future data centre demand While the current deployment operates at sub-megawatt scale, the technology is designed to scale up to 50MW, opening the possibility of hydrogen supporting both backup and primary power for hyperscale environments.

The project will generate data on safety, commercial viability and operational performance, contributing to broader industry and policy discussions.

Peter emphasises the importance of local production and integration with existing infrastructure as hydrogen adoption progresses.

“ To deploy hydrogen power more widely, the optimum solution is to produce green hydrogen close to the source, so in this case, here in Ireland, and then to blend it into the existing gas grid, and utilise it via gridconnected sources,” he says.

“ This would be the most efficient approach. Equinix could then design and deploy fuel cell solutions, once commercially available, to power future data centres.”

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