Data Centres and Renewable Energy Project
Community & Economics
This section covers the wider issues relating to social and environmental factors related to data centres. It also looks at the costs of providing electricity by each renewable energy option as well as building and running the data centre.
Community Issues
- Previous experience of similar projects
- Benefits and potential problems
- Impact upon environment – physically and atheistically
- CO2 reduction schemes
- Local Government incentives
- Planning regulations
Employment
- Skills required and numbers of positions
- Dependencies of distance from community and response times.
- Impact of employment upon the community
Dealing with waste heat
- Current options
- Future possibilities
- Impacts and opportunities
Estimating the cost of renewable energy options
- Capital and operating costs
- Renewable Energy incentives
Estimating the cost building and running a data centre
- Site
- Data centre
- Connectivity
- Operating costs