About Power & Responsibility – The Data Centre Podcast
Amid the constantly expanding data requirements of today’s society, Power & Responsibility takes a look at the key issues in the debate around data centre sustainability. Hosts Jeremy Probert and Craig McKechnie talk to leading industry experts about renewable energy generation, power supply, energy efficiency, developing alternative energy carriers, water consumption, grid infrastructure, funding and investment, the pace of change, and the technology that is making it all possible? Created and produced by 4TC, Power & Responsibility – The Data Centre Podcast – is brought to you by Irish data centre provider Echelon Data Centres.
Morgan Flanagan Creagh talks to Echelon's Sr. Vice President of Engineering, Andy Tolbert, to bust water-usage myths and break down the plain-English engineering behind sustainable cooling and how we are engineering water draw out of the equation: Near-Zero Water Draw: How closed-loop systems continuously recycle cooling fluids.Irish Weather as an Asset: Utilising our climate for "free cooling" 70% to 90% of the year without power-hungry compressors.The AI Density Leap: How we design infrastr...
17 Jul 2026
Fault Ride Through – How Data Centres can support the Grid
In the latest episode of Power and Responsibility, we explore Fault Ride Through (FRT) – a new approach to how large energy users respond to momentary disturbances on the electricity grid. Rather than immediately disconnecting from the grid when a fault causes a voltage or frequency disturbance, FRT enables facilities to remain connected and quickly restore demand as the grid recovers. This helps avoid sudden drops in demand that can make grid management more challenging. Echelon's Paul Harri...
20 Feb 2024
Tackling the Power Problem
With an increasing number of data centre operators generating power through onsite energy centres, Craig McKechnie talks to Cormac Nevin, head of Energy Systems at Echelon Data Centres, about what this means for national electricity grids, for energy security, for the digital economy, and for climate commitments and the sustainability agenda.
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