Moji Installs Gas-Fired Backup Generator at Paris Data Center

Move Will Help Reduce Cloud Services Firm’s Carbon Footprint Digital infrastructure provider Moji says it has become the first French data center operator to install natural gas-fired backup generators. The company, which offers dark fiber access and cloud services to its customers, has partnered with generator supplier Pramac and gas supplier GRDF to install a 300kVA Pramac generator at its data center in Nanterre, a suburb west of […]

Move Will Help Reduce Cloud Services Firm’s Carbon Footprint

Digital infrastructure provider Moji says it has become the first French data center operator to install natural gas-fired backup generators.

The company, which offers dark fiber access and cloud services to its customers, has partnered with generator supplier Pramac and gas supplier GRDF to install a 300kVA Pramac generator at its data center in Nanterre, a suburb west of Paris. Many data center operators are looking to move away from traditional diesel backup generators and toward more sustainable options, such as machines that run on hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO). Gas isn’t as clean as HVO, but Moji says the move will help it reduce its carbon footprint. In comments published by DC Mag, Ferdinand Chevrant-Breton, founder of Moji, said: “With this technology, [we will] save around 1,200 litres of fuel per year.”

He added that the company will “reduce CO2 emissions by 20% and NOx emissions by 90% compared to fuel oil solutions.”

The generator uses gas supplied by the GRDF network and does not require a tank. Its design means it can be up and running in 10 seconds if needed. Pramac is an Italian company that produces a wide range of generators and other industrial equipment.

“The equipment chosen today by Moji is an excellent example of the ability of gas to decarbonize uses,” says Florence Mourey, deputy director of territorial customers at GRDF in the Ile-de-France region. “Thanks to this pragmatic solution, this data center is fully in line with decarbonization.”

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