SK Ecoplant Builds SOFC-Based Power Supply System for Singapore Data Center

SK ecoplant will supply solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) as the power supply system for the data center that GDS, China’s largest data center development and operation company, is building in Singapore.

In August last year, Park Kyung-il, President of SK Ecoplant (left), and William Wei Huang, Chairman of GDS, took a commemorative photo after signing an agreement for the "Fuel Cell-Linked Data Center Business Development." (Provided by SK Ecoplant)

SK ecoplant announced on the 4th that it has won a project to supply and install fuel cells for the data center that GDS is establishing in Singapore.

GDS is China’s largest data center development and operation company headquartered in Shanghai. It owns more than 100 data centers and provides services to over 830 global customers.

This collaboration was made according to the “Agreement for Fuel Cell-Linked Data Center Business Development” signed by SK ecoplant and GDS in August last year. This is the first case of SOFC being applied to a data center in Singapore.

In this project, SK ecoplant will be responsible for the entire fuel cell package EPC (engineering, procurement, and construction) work, including supplying fuel cells to the GDS data center. The SOFC supplied this time is a third-generation fuel cell with the highest power generation efficiency among existing fuel cell technologies. It is a representative urban-type distributed power source capable of producing high-efficiency power even on a small site. Another major advantage is that it can produce power 24 hours a day regardless of season, weather, or other environmental factors.

In fact, global companies such as Microsoft and Equinix are increasingly adopting fuel cells as power supply solutions for data centers. SOFC is becoming mainstream in the global market based on its high power efficiency. In reality, Bloom Energy’s SOFCs are installed and operated in more than 700 locations worldwide, including about 100 leading global companies such as Apple and Google.

Park Kyung-il, President of SK ecoplant, said, “Since we have extensive experience in fuel cell-based power supply solutions ranging from small to medium-sized data centers and hospitals to large-scale power generation fuel cells, we will accelerate our approach to various commercialization markets. We will take the lead in exports by securing the global fuel cell market through continuous cooperation with not only Bloom Energy but also domestic companies.”

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