LATEST INTELLIGENCE may incentivize data center operators to use this idle energy capacity to help the utility balance the supply and demand of electricity in real time . utilities , and the UPS modes required for these interactions . Finally , we illustrate the pros and cons of each UPS mode .
While data centers have had battery-based energy storage for many decades , why would this make sense now ? In this paper , we explain the trends behind this new ability for data centers to monetize underused capacity . We describe three basic ways data center operators can interact with electric
Historically , electric utilities directly , and centrally , controlled diverse types of electricity generation to match with demand from their customer base . However , with the increase in renewable energy , utilities have limited control of these distributed energy sources due to their inherently intermittent nature . p
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