Fuel cell-based cogeneration system covering data centers’ energy needs

Giuseppe Leo Guizzi and Michele Manno

Energy, 2012, vol. 41, issue 1, 56-64

Abstract: The Information and Communication Technology industry has gone in the recent years through a dramatic expansion, driven by many new online (local and remote) applications and services. Such growth has obviously triggered an equally remarkable growth in energy consumption by data centers, which require huge amounts of power not only for IT devices, but also for power distribution units and for air-conditioning systems needed to cool the IT equipment.

Keywords: Data center; Cogeneration; Energy efficiency; Hydrogen; PEMFC; Membrane reformer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.07.030

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