Bloom Energy’s product is proving an increasingly popular choice for data centres and in March 2012 the company launched its ‘Mission Critical Practice’, a service that aims to secure the energy supply for critical government and business IT systems. By providing highly reliable power independently of the electricity grid, fuel cell systems help to improve data security and minimise the effect of grid disruptions (for more information on this application please refer to the Special Feature on page 30). Bloom Energy has already garnered two very substantial data centre orders in 2012: eBay is to install 6 MW of fuel.
