Intelligence Update
Data center operators will face more grid disturbances
The energy crisis of 2022, resulting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, caused serious problems for data center operators in Europe. Energy prices leapt up and are likely to stay high. This has resulted in ongoing concerns that utilities in some European countries, which have a mismatch of supply and demand, will have to shed loads.
Even before the current crisis, long-term trends in the energy sector pointed towards less reliable electrical grids, not only in Europe, but also in North America. Data center operators — which rarely have protected status due to their generator use — are having to adapt to a new reality: electrical grids in the future may be less reliable than they are now.
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