Abstract
In the context of the energy transition, the power system urgently needs to release the flexibility of electricity consumption at all stages. With the development of cloud computing technology and the advancement of new infrastructure strategies, data centers will play an important role in all walks of life. Tapping the potential of flexible energy use and innovating energy use methods are the development requirements of the data center itself, and it is also the need to comply with the future development. On the basis of the first paper in the series, the sources of data center power load flexibility are analyzed from different time and spatial dimensions. Combined with the spatio-temporal flexibility of data center power load, the collaborative optimization research context of data center and power system in dispatch operation, annual planning, market policy and market participation in the existing literature is summarized, the role and potential of data centers in promoting renewable energy consumption in