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Electricity 4.0 helping drive more sustainable data centres
As it stands , data centres are estimated to be responsible for up to 3 % of global electricity consumption today , and projected to touch 4 % by 2030 . As a result , green energy solutions have never been more critical to preserving the data centre industry .
According to Schneider Electric – one of the world ’ s leading voices in sustainable data centres – the most viable solution to the current crisis lies in the latest evolution of industrial energy solutions : Electricity 4.0 .
“ This is Schneider Electric ’ s vision for digital and electric : digital for efficiencies and electric for decarbonisation , leading towards a green , smart energy system for a sustainable future ,” Steve Brown , the Global Director of the Cloud and Service Provider Segment at Schneider Electric told our sister publication Data Centre Magazine recently .
“ We call it Electricity 4.0 because it ’ s really a sea change in technological evolution , occurring over the couple of centuries that have passed since we first industrialised .”
Brown defines 1.0 as the very earliest days of electrification , 2.0 as mass electrification for the first time , and 3.0 as the establishment of distributed energy resources .
“ We ’ re now at 4.0 , for the first time . We can establish electric and digital solutions at scale , for smart , green energy . And that ’ s going to take us from a linear supply of fossil fuel towards demand without limited control and optimisation , to a flexible grid .”
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