GreenScale, a next-generation sustainable data centre platform, has partnered with Schneider Electric to support the development of its strategic sites in Europe.
The collaboration will see Schneider Electric’s Secure Power and Services divisions provide technical engineering and design consultancy to GreenScale, helping improve predictability, accelerate deployment and reduce operational risk by using advanced automation, predictive analytics and condition-based maintenance.
GreenScale is developing data centres in power-rich markets with strong renewable energy potential, with a focus on sustainability, positive community impact, and long-term regional investment.
GreenScale’s partnership with Schneider Electric supports innovations including condition-based maintenance, digital twin integration, and enhanced remote monitoring and control capabilities. These help maintain efficient and reliable performance while minimising service risk, enabling high operational standards, improved safety, and consistent performance across all locations.
By partnering with Schneider Electric to develop the new, AI-ready reference architectures, GreenScale is embedding intelligence and automation into its designs.
This includes using predictive analytics and condition-based maintenance to optimise asset performance, lower lifecycle costs and enable more effective supply chain planning. These capabilities, particularly valuable in remote or emerging regions, improve uptime, reduce the risk of human error, and strengthen on-site operations teams, allowing them to focus on higher-value, targeted maintenance and interventions.
“As demand for AI, cloud and HPC accelerates in Europe, data centre operators must rethink how facilities are designed and managed,” said Dan Thomas, chief executive officer, GreenScale. “Our work with Schneider Electric demonstrates how advanced data centre architectures and digital innovation can unlock new levels of automation, efficiency and resilience, and will set a new standard for intelligent design to benefit our customers.”
“GreenScale’s vision for its European data centres represents a new era in advanced design, where automation, efficiency and real-time visibility are embedded from day one,” said Thierry Chamayou, VP, cloud and service providers, Europe, Schneider Electric.
“By combining expertise from our Secure Power and Services divisions, we are helping to create a resilient, AI-ready infrastructure platform that will operate efficiently even in the most demanding environments.”
In a new snap poll, Utility Week and Accenture want to hear the views of demand customers on this vital issue.
Our survey looks at the current state of play for demand customers – how transparent the process is and how satisfied customers are with the service from energy networks.
We gauge appetite on some of the suggestions emerging from Ofgem and government’s consultations. They suggest various options, including stricter requirements for entry to the queue and options to prioritise “government identified strategic demand projects”.
The survey also looks at the approaches being taken by electricity networks, who are already experimenting with novel connection offers, such as those that offer a phased path towards the maximum load sought or flex the amount sought over time.
Utility Week editor-in-chief James Wallin said: “There is no doubt that the development of data centres across the UK will play a significant role in driving wider economic growth. The energy sector stands ready to play its part in this new industrial revolution. But this transition also brings uncertainty about how this flurry of demand connection requests will be managed.
“We strongly believe it’s vital that the voice of the demand customer is at the heart of any reforms being planned.
“To that end, we would like to ask for five minutes of your time to fill in the poll below. We will be feeding back the anonymised results to networks to help them build out their suite of solutions for demand connections.”
Please fill out the survey.
