Ecoult’s Dual Purpose Energy Storage Featured
in Forbes Online
Why Data Centers Could Be Good For The Grid
Many worry about the impact of data centers on the grid. But with a few technological advances and
some clever business planning, data centers could...
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Ecoult’s Dual Purpose Energy Storage Featured
in Forbes Online
Why Data Centers Could Be Good For The Grid
Many worry about the impact of data centers on the grid. But with a few technological advances and
some clever business planning, data centers could become one of the best friends of the electric
power industry.
The potential shift in how data centers are viewed would revolve around the way that
uninterruptable power supplies (UPSes) are used today and how they could be used, said Tze
Masters, CFO of Ecoult Energy Storage Solutions at the Energy Storage North America conference,
which took place this week in San Jose.
UPSes are essentially big, expensive cabinets filled with batteries designed to supply servers and
storage systems with electricity in the event of a power failure. All of the electricity flowing into data
centers flows through UPSes first, but in general they fulfill the same role as hostage negotiators:
they exist to get people through emergencies. Most of the time
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