Why Data Centres Need a Smarter Energy Strategy
How monitoring, optimisation and onsite generation work together to reduce demand, improve resilience and strengthen the path to grid capacity.
How can data centres secure the power they need when grid capacity is becoming the biggest constraint on growth?
Every new data centre project, and many existing sites, are now facing the same reality: grid capacity is becoming the limiting factor. The challenge is no longer simply finding more supply. Operators need to understand how energy is consumed across the site, reduce avoidable demand, improve efficiency in supporting infrastructure and integrate generation and resilience strategies in a way that works with the grid rather than against it.
This webinar brings together three complementary perspectives: visibility, efficiency and resilience.
Relevant if you work in
- Data centre operations, facilities or engineering leadership.
- Energy, sustainability or infrastructure teams responsible for high-load sites.
- Data centre developers looking at connection readiness and future capacity.
- Colocation, hyperscale or enterprise data centre teams managing demand growth.
- Teams evaluating monitoring, optimisation, onsite generation or resilience strategies.
You should attend if you are
- You are trying to secure, increase or protect grid capacity.
- You need clearer visibility of how energy is being consumed across the site.
- You want to reduce avoidable demand before adding more supply.
- You are assessing onsite generation, storage or resilience options.
- You need monitoring, efficiency and generation to work as one energy strategy.
What you'll learn
Why grid capacity is becoming the central constraint
for data centre growth.
Why accurate monitoring is the foundation
for capacity, efficiency and resilience decisions.
Where demand can often be reduced outside the server estate,
especially in cooling and air handling.
How onsite generation is changing
from backup power into a strategic grid and resilience asset.
What a joined-up, grid-ready energy strategy
should consider first.
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William Lloyd
William Lloyd is a Sales Engineer at Janitza UK, pairing an electrical engineering background with a commercial focus on power quality, smart metering and energy management. He supports end users, consultants and switchgear builders with practical guidance across manufacturing and data centre environments.
Ian Farr
Ian Farr is Sales Manager at Edina, where he has worked for more than 19 years. His expertise spans renewable energy, waste to energy and biogas, giving him a strong practical view of how onsite generation can support resilience, flexibility and long-term energy strategy for large energy users.
Younis Osama Abdelsalam
Younis Osama Abdelsalam is a Principal Energy Consultant at EM3, a Chartered Engineer and Certified Energy Manager. He has led international energy audits and decarbonisation programmes across industrial, pharmaceutical and food and beverage sites, and is pursuing a PhD in data centre energy life cycles, cooling and thermal modelling.
Nick Langlois
Nick Langlois is Head of Sales for Ireland and NW Europe at EM3, with over 14 years across engineering, energy markets and commercial roles. He brings a practical understanding of industrial energy strategy, grid constraints, demand flexibility and the commercial realities of helping large energy users move towards net zero.
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