RWE has signed an eight-year energy buy settlement (PPA) with knowledge centre operator International Change to produce renewable electrical energy to its London Docklands facility.
The PPA runs from January 2026 till 2033, with RWE supplying 70 GWh of electrical energy per 12 months. The electrical energy will probably be attributed to the Brechfa Forest West onshore wind farm which is positioned in south-west Wales and was commissioned in 2018. That wind farm contains 28 generators with a era capability of 57.4 MW.
For International Change, the settlement lands at a time when the Docklands campus is present process densification and enlargement, with the corporate pointing to secured energy capability of 224 MVA (round 224 MW). The positioning has additionally been positioned for AI and high-performance computing demand, together with a latest CoreWeave deployment of NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPUs, in addition to International Change’s liquid cooling showcase in London.
Ulf Kerstin, Chief Business Officer at RWE Provide & Buying and selling, famous, “In view of the continuing digitalisation and the rising use of synthetic intelligence in virtually all areas of life, the variety of knowledge centres and their power necessities are rising. Some knowledge centre operators are already counting on using low-carbon electrical energy from RWE, and we’re delighted to have gained International Change as one other accomplice.”
Peter Domeney, COO at International Change, added, “Our settlement with RWE is a important subsequent step on our journey to buying 100% renewable power by 2030, and to the setting of recent requirements for what a sustainable, environmentally-conscious knowledge centre can appear to be. It’s an settlement that brings collectively the forests of Wales and probably the most highly effective, most superior AI and excessive efficiency compute deployments on the earth.”
