Israel’s Data Centre Industry Majorly Driven by Renewable Power

Date Centres in Israel powered by RE

Data centres is a hard-to-abate industry. However, with increased adoption of and focus on using renewable sources of energy to generate electricity, data centres around the world are beginning to place a premium on solar energy.

In December 2022, the NTT Group, the biggest data center player in India a global leader in offering people, customers, and communities technology and business solutions. held that it would employ power from solar energy to maintain its environmental goals. The company representative stated that NTT India would install 350 MW of solar energy because its data centers’ power requirements are predicted to reach 400 MW in a few years. By then, it had already installed 100 MW worth of solar capacity.

Israel is also stepping up efforts in the renewable energy direction and accelerating procurement of RE. With the prices of coal witnessing on an upward trend, it is expected that the country will continue to rely on renewable sources. By 2025, the Government of Israel is looking to produce almost 25% of its energy from renewable energy. This will also entail the total capacity of solar photovoltaic installed of about 9.8 GW.

The Israeli data centers are being driven by renewable energy on a large scale. The data centres in the country are being  are being powered by smart grid technology. International cloud service provider AWS, for example, is also establishing a  Data Centers Project in the country. The project is being powered by smart grid technology and boasts of power capacity of close to 48 MW.

Another report indicates that the Middle East green data centre industry has potential for growth at CAGR of almost 15% between 2022 to 2027.