Sidestepping the grid led to 44% cheaper electricity and 70% fewer emissions, CEO says
A UK datacenter startup realized it could have to wait until the late 2030s for power grid connection dates, and has instead turned to modular facilities located at the site of renewable energy sources., which was founded in 2022, is putting AI datacenter infrastructure inside enclosures that are similar to shipping containers.
A"grid connection offer," if you're wondering, is something those seeking to connect to the National Grid must obtain from Britain's high-voltage electric power transmission network before they can put in orders for"works to be undertaken," or even find out pricing, terms, and other important info. "The reason they weren't able to sell it to the grid is that they had a restriction on how much power they could actually export, again down to infrastructure constraints. So we developed a small pilot project just outside of York, just to prove our concept on a very small scale," Behan said.
He claims that by eliminating grid costs and utility margins this way, Chainergy is able to get power 44 percent cheaper and emit 70 percent fewer CO2 emissions than a standard bit barn. That pilot project ran throughout the second half of 2023 up until the end of Q3 last year. While some corporates may be looking to repatriate workloads on-premises again, they don't necessarily have the energy capacity or cooling infrastructure to do energy intensive workloads like AI, he asserts.Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacentersfor specific workloads, which can include AI, but it is not a wholesale mass migration away from the public cloud.
We asked Chainergy if it was considering other renewable energy sites such as those based on solar or wind, but Behan told us these are currently too intermittent for its requirements. Biogas can deliver 95 percent plus uptime, he claimed, which means that it only needs to fall back on biofuel-powered backup generators for a small period of time.
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