The Cost of Data Centres - Modelling the household electricity costs of Ireland's data centre sector
データセンターのコスト - アイルランドのデータセンターセクターが家計の電気料金に与える影響のモデル化 (AI 翻訳)
Fearon, Seán
🤖 gxceed AI 要約
日本語
アイルランドではデータセンターの電力消費が急増し、2023年には全電力の22%を占める。同国のガス火力依存とデータセンターの一定負荷が卸電力価格を押し上げ、家庭の電気料金に累積で平均360ユーロの追加負担をもたらした。将来のシナリオ分析でも同様のコスト増が予測される。
English
Data centres consumed 22% of Irish electricity by 2023. Their constant, inflexible demand, combined with gas-fired power dependence, raised wholesale prices. The average household incurred an extra €360 cumulatively from 2015-2023. Future scenarios project further cost increases.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本でもデータセンターの電力消費拡大が課題となりつつあり、同様の家計負担の分析が政策検討に資する。本稿のモデル手法は日本の電力市場分析にも応用可能。
In the global GX context
As data centre demand surges globally, this paper quantifies the cost pass-through to households in a gas-dependent grid, offering a replicable methodology for other markets grappling with similar challenges in the energy transition.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Provides a residual demand modelling approach to quantify the impact of inflexible loads on wholesale electricity prices.
🏢実務担当者:Highlights the need for data centre operators to consider grid costs and potential regulatory responses.
🏛政策担当者:Demonstrates the hidden costs of data centre expansion on households, encouraging demand-side management or renewable integration policies.
📄 Abstract（原文）
The data centre sector in the Republic of Ireland has expanded dramatically since 2015. As of 2023, some 22% of Irish electricity is consumed by data centres, more than all urban households combined. System operator projections estimate this could rise to 30% of total energy requirements across the Republic of Ireland by 2030. This report seeks to model and quantify the impact on wholesale costs in the Irish Single Electricity Market (ISEM) driven by the rising scale, and constant, inflexible nature of data centre energy demand. Given Ireland's dependence on gas-fired power on the grid, the constant load of data centre electricity demand acts as a rising floor, pushing wholesale prices up the merit order curve, and setting gas as a price setter, more often than would otherwise be the case, leading to an increase in wholesale power costs for Irish households. Using residual demand modelling, this estimates the data centre cost effect by simulating the merit order curve from the demand-side, using official EirGrid system data and ENTSO-E Transparency Platform data on ISEM wholesale prices. It estimates that the average Irish household paid €360 in their residential electricity bills, cumulatively between 2015-2023, as a result of the data centre price effect. The report also finds that this interaction effect between gas-fired power dependency and a rising and inflexible data centre demand profile, will lead to further costs for households in the future, across a range of EirGrid data centre demand scenarios and official renewable energy development pathways.
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