ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a brief description of the advanced technical concepts including thermal and electric schemes along with the main components. It is derived from the integration of innovations under a holistic approach with the aims to provide power, cooling, or both for a Data Centre and to ensure a high share of renewables. The chapter proposes advanced technical concepts containing promising energy-efficiency strategies, which have the potential to minimise the non-renewable primary energy demand for supplying both cooling and power or only cooling to Data Centres. Advanced technical concepts are assigned to these scenarios in order to cover a wide range of Data Centre types. As far as thermal and electrical storages are concerned, operation and management strategies are required for optimal integration into Data Centres and in order to reach high-energy efficiency. Energy flows per year using a Sankey chart are presented for selected scenarios with the objective to present how energy is distributed within the different subsystems.
