Data centres - big deployment with a small splash

How will various degrees of deployment of data centres impact a small country’s energy system? In this 2020-interview, Stefan Petrovic, now special advisor at the Danish Energy Agency, explains a very interesting study on Denmark by Stefan Petrović, Alessandro Colangelo, Olexandr Balyk, Chiara Delmastro, Maurizio Gargiulo, Mikkel Bosack Simonsen and Kenneth Bernard Karlsson.

And he has some unusual - but useful - recommendations in the Peer Review-section of the episode...

• The study: The role of data centres in the future Danish energy system
• Study on scenicness: The implications of landscape visual impact on future highly renewable power systems: a case study for Great Britain
• The offshore-onshore conundrum: Preferences for wind energy considering spatial data in Denmark
• Fabian Bühler’s papers 
  • Industrial excess heat for district heating in Denmark
  • Spatiotemporal and economic analysis of industrial excess heat as a resource for district heating
• Also, here's a link to a 2020-episode of The Interchange, which had an interesting discussion on data centres

Sound design by Dea Cisar.

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