Taipower breaks ground for data hub in ChanghuaBy Angelica Oung / Staff reporterState-run Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) yesterday broke ground for a cloud data center in Changhua County, as the firm is seeking to build a smart grid to handle rising electricity consumption amid increasing demand for energy from renewable sources. “Taiwan is undergoing an energy transition,” Taipower spokesman Chang Ting-shu (張廷舒), said. Officials and Taipower representatives attend the groundbreaking ceremony for a cloud data center in Changhua County yesterday. “We are planning to build smaller, more responsive gas plants that can be very responsive to demand,” Chang said. The center is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified “green building,” using 25 percent less energy than an average data center, Taipower said, adding that it would run on locally generated renewable energy.

Source: Taipei Times September 09, 2021 15:56 UTC