While data centers are springing up around the world, the expansion of the electricity grid is lagging behind. This is now causing European Energy to invest significantly more in delivering power directly from its own energy parks to data centers. According to the company's CEO, Knud Erik Andersen, data centers are a new and rapidly growing customer group with particularly high demands on power supply. This is reported by Børsen.
- Data centres are clearly one of the very hungry customer groups. Their needs are developing faster than what we see in traditional industries, says Knud Erik Andersen, CEO of European Energy.
Knud Erik Andersen points out that the demand for computing power – driven by artificial intelligence – will create a new wave of data centres towards 2030, both in Denmark and in markets such as Australia, Sweden and Germany. In total, he expects that European Energy can pursue the strategy in around ten countries. The company is now investigating how data centers can be located close to European Energy's solar and wind farms and connected directly to the same connection point. This allows the power to be delivered without the strained electricity grid, where new connections today often take several years. European Energy expects that the focus on data centers could account for around 10 percent of its business in the future.
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