{"id":219761,"date":"2023-06-27T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T08:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/?p=219761"},"modified":"2024-01-08T16:48:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T15:48:14","slug":"clean-energy-for-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growens.io\/en\/clean-energy-for-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean energy for the cloud with AWS Waveswing"},"content":{"rendered":"

In line with its core business, Growens’s growth has always been supported by constant and significant investments in technological and <\/span>infrastructural innovation<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

During 2022, the Group kept relying on the <\/span>Amazon Web Services (AWS)<\/span><\/a> cloud platforms and infrastructures, adopting also the <\/span>AWS Waveswing technology<\/b> which exploits the wave motion to generate energy in a sustainable way for the data infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Growens and AWS Cloud<\/b><\/h2>\n

For its<\/span> cloud infrastructure<\/b>, Growens relies on Amazon Web Services (AWS), leader in 2022 (for the twelfth consecutive year) in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for platform services and cloud infrastructures (first for both execution skills and completeness of the vision).<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to its energy efficiency, <\/span>five times better<\/b> than the median of corporate European data centers, and to its efficiency programmes impacting the whole structure, Growens can save meaningful expenses on IT costs and consistently improve its productivity, business agility and operational resilience.<\/span><\/p>\n

AWS Waveswing\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n

Among the initiatives proposed by AWS and used by Growens, the Waveswing solution is an off-shore technology that exploits wave motion to generate energy.<\/span><\/p>\n

This technology is composed by a submerged wave power buoy that reacts to changes in sub-sea <\/span>water pressure<\/b> caused by passing waves and converts the resulting motion to electricity via a direct-drive generator.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The system is suitable for deployment in water depths in excess of <\/span>25m<\/b> and it can be composed by a single buoy or by a more complex structure with the integration of a multi-absorber element that can offer up a higher energy production.<\/span><\/p>\n

Up to now, the wave energy converter captured an average power of over 10kW, peaking at <\/span>80kW<\/b> during a period of moderate wave conditions. Such data exceeded the developer’s forecasts by 20%.<\/span><\/p>\n

Waveswing benefits<\/b><\/h4>\n