Adapting Datacenter Capacity for Greener Datacenters and Grid
Liuzixuan Lin, Andrew A. Chien · 2023
Cloud providers are adapting datacenter (DC) capacity to reduce carbon emissions. With hyperscale datacenters exceeding 100 MW individually, and in some grids exceeding 15% of power load, DC adaptation is large enough to harm power grid dynamics, increasing carbon emissions, power prices, or reduce grid reliability.