Connect | London // Panel: Beyond backup - How battery storage is redefining data center energy strategy

Over the last few years traditional power architectures for data centers including reliance on grid supply, diesel backup, and short-duration UPS have become increasingly misaligned with the realities of volatile workloads, rising electricity costs, and stricter sustainability targets.  In this context, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are evolving from a niche backup solution into a central component of data center energy strategy, offering both resilience and flexibility.

Join industry experts as discuss:

• How batteries can respond instantly to grid disturbances, enhancing power quality and ensuring uptime, while also enabling peak shaving and load shifting to better manage spiky, AI-driven demand and reduce operating costs
• The role BESS can play in decarbonisation including storing excess renewable energy and smoothing intermittence
• The impact of energy systems becoming more decentralised, and storage-equipped facilities beginning to act as active participants in the grid, providing services such as frequency regulation and demand response