Atos and HDF energy to develop the first green hydrogen datacenter

Paris, February twenty five, 2021,

Atos and HDF Electrical power today announce their strategy to develop a finish end-to-end extensive-term answer to offer datacenters with environmentally friendly hydrogen generated by renewable strength. The new answer by Atos and HDF will be the to start with available on the marketplace for datacenters with heavy electrical power consuming workloads, with the purpose to show, in 2023, a to start with comprehensive manufacturing centre operated utilizing environmentally friendly hydrogen.

Atos will present a finish end-to-end environmentally friendly datacenter answer by planning and offering the hardware, program and integration solutions that make it feasible to exploit the electrical energy manufactured by environmentally friendly hydrogen so that it can be employed in datacenters. This consists of utilizing the most superior Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems to improve strength intake. HDF Electrical power will offer a electrical power plant, which will present predictable and organization electrical energy thanks to its significant-run gasoline cells. These cells will be run by environmentally friendly hydrogen derived from photovoltaic or wind farms.

A important technological challenge

Datacenters have significant strength demands, run 24/seven, 365 days a year, and are not able to working experience the slightest strength flaw. Hence, the method taken by Atos and HDF is particularly bold, as by its very mother nature, solar or wind strength is clear but intermittent, variable in its manufacturing and unpredictable, earning it an unstable strength.
At a time when datacenter strength intake is getting a essential difficulty and it is critical to take into consideration new strength types, this new answer from Atos and HDF will empower datacenter operators and cloud operators to anticipate likely long run constraints set by regulation authorities and supply a sustainable but reliable answer to their buyers, with no compromise on their business enterprise.

Combining know-how to decrease the carbon footprint

Atos’ answer consists of a program layer to forecast the datacenter’s electrical power intake demands and adapt the resource (environmentally friendly hydrogen) appropriately. This elaborate course of action is not only based mostly on the datacenter’s activity and size but also requires into account exterior facts from the setting, these as climate forecasting. To this, Atos provides its HPC know-how – an spot in which it, as the foremost supercomputer manufacturer in Europe, has a number of groundbreaking innovations which restrict the strength intake of its methods[1].

Many thanks to its know-how in significant-electrical power hydrogen systems, HDF has formulated a new style of electrical power plant which is totally steady, non-polluting and aggressive, when compared to fossil gasoline turbines. The availability constraints of the datacenter will be integrated in the style and design of Renewstable® and will empower HDF to supply the optimum stage of support for the most demanding people.

“We are constantly trying to find to develop alternatives to leverage our have sustainable journey toward decarbonization and to assist our clients in theirs. In this viewpoint, the answer to be formulated by Atos and HDF will be the to start with answer available on the marketplace that will empower a comprehensive manufacturing datacenter with very demanding workloads to be operated utilizing environmentally friendly hydrogen. This fulfills the anticipations not only of operators, but also of the marketplace and community authorities.” states Arnaud Bertrand, SVP, Head of Approach and Innovation for Big Data & Safety at Atos.

“We are very fired up to develop the to start with-of-its-sort environmentally friendly datacenter with Atos. HDF is a pioneer in hydrogen-strength and it is very critical for us to show that our Hydrogen-to-Ability alternatives are suitable for buyers with a strategic need for a reliable electrical energy offer. This even further advancement into the electronic industry, where strength intake is increasing each and every working day, opens up a sizeable all over the world marketplace for us. The HDF-Atos partnership presents the to start with one of a kind and sustainable infrastructure for this massive marketplace.” states Damien Havard, CEO at HDF.

This initiative signifies a new and important milestone in Atos’ Web Zero 2028 decarbonization ambition. In 2020, Atos has presently accelerated its datacenter decarbonization application with encouraging development in strength efficiency, which has materialized into a fifteen{bcdc0d62f3e776dc94790ed5d1b431758068d4852e7f370e2bcf45b6c3b9404d} lessen of worldwide strength intake of Atos datacenters vs . 2019. In addition, carbon-absolutely free and renewable strength now electrical power 55{bcdc0d62f3e776dc94790ed5d1b431758068d4852e7f370e2bcf45b6c3b9404d} of all of Atos datacenters (vs . 32{bcdc0d62f3e776dc94790ed5d1b431758068d4852e7f370e2bcf45b6c3b9404d} in 2019). On top of that, considering the fact that 2014, Atos has been offering carbon neutral internet hosting solutions to its clients by offsetting one hundred{bcdc0d62f3e776dc94790ed5d1b431758068d4852e7f370e2bcf45b6c3b9404d} of its datacenters’ emissions. Atos also not too long ago signed the Climate Neutral Datacenter Pact jointly with 35 other firms and associations from across Europe, emphasizing the industry’s contribution to the ‘European Eco-friendly Deal’.

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[1] Such as its patented Direct Liquid Coolling (DLC)  solution, which minimizes worldwide strength intake in its supercomputers by utilizing warm h2o up to 40°C and its Intelligent Electrical power Administration Suite, section of its HPC Application Suite, which is employed to take care of strength while optimizing effectiveness, to be certain that clients’ HPC methods are as strength economical as feasible with a minimal carbon footprint.

About Atos
Atos is a worldwide leader in electronic transformation with one zero five,000 employees and once-a-year profits of above € 11 billion. European quantity one in cybersecurity, cloud and significant-effectiveness computing, the Group presents customized end-to-end alternatives for all industries in seventy one nations. A pioneer in decarbonization solutions and products and solutions, Atos is fully commited to a protected and decarbonized electronic for its clients. Atos operates below the brands Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.
The intent of Atos is to support style and design the long run of the facts area. Its know-how and solutions assist the advancement of understanding, education and research in a multicultural method and lead to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence. Across the planet, the Group allows its buyers and employees, and users of societies at huge to stay, work and develop sustainably, in a harmless and protected facts area.

Atos Press get in touch with
Lucie Duchateau – [email protected] – +33 ()seven 62 eighty five 35 10

About HDF
HDF Electrical power is a worldwide pioneer in hydrogen strength. HDF develops and operates significant-capacity Hydrogen-to-Ability electrical power crops to present ongoing or on-need electrical energy from renewable energies mixed with significant-electrical power gasoline cells.
HDF has formulated two types of multi-megawatt electrical power crops:

• Renewstable® (Ability TO Ability): steady electrical energy era from an intermittent renewable supply utilizing regionally manufactured environmentally friendly hydrogen.
• Hypower® (Fuel TO Ability): On-need electrical power era from environmentally friendly hydrogen from fuel transportation networks.

HDF has integrated its essential gasoline mobile know-how in and will commission the world’s to start with mass manufacturing plant for these significant-electrical power gasoline cells in France, below the model identify HDF Business. In addition to strength, HDF Business will also address the rail and maritime markets. HDF is as a result positioned as a impressive accelerator in strength transition by offering non-intermittent renewable electrical energy, beautifully tailored to the networks and on-need, which can reach up to one hundred{bcdc0d62f3e776dc94790ed5d1b431758068d4852e7f370e2bcf45b6c3b9404d} of the strength mix.

HDF Press get in touch with
Annick Latour – [email protected] – +33 ()five fifty six seventy seven 11 11