Clear answers.
Power-first thinking.

A site with the land rights, permissions, electrical arrangements and supply plan needed for an agreed data-centre use. FIU develops these elements together and makes the development stage clear: an opportunity, approved capacity and operating infrastructure are different things.

A battery project can provide a valuable starting position: land, a connection agreement, electrical routes and development work already undertaken. We establish which of those assets can support a data centre and what further approvals and infrastructure are required. An existing battery project is a starting point for assessment, rather than automatic permission for a new use.

That depends on the connection agreement. Storage charging rights may be restricted or conditional and cannot simply be assumed to permit continuous data-centre consumption. We confirm the proposed demand profile with the network operator and obtain the relevant approvals. Deliverable IT capacity is calculated after allowing for cooling, auxiliary loads and operating headroom.

Where it contributes to the completed system. Storage can help manage renewable supply, support resilience and provide flexibility. Its size, duration and operating duties follow the engineering and customer requirements. In the architecture illustrated on this website, the battery remains an integral part of the power system, with a protected campus reserve.

Private wire supplies a common site electrical network. The battery connects through its power-conversion branch and can charge or discharge as required; incoming power does not all have to cycle through battery cells. The grid provides a separate backup connection. During grid balancing, private wire remains active and battery discharge supports both campus supply and controlled grid export, while campus demand remains unchanged.

No. The design requirement is 6–8 hours of reserve for total campus demand, including IT, cooling and auxiliaries, protected from grid-service dispatch. It can supply the campus during an outage and must be restored before grid-service export resumes. Grid balancing uses only battery energy above that reserve, within available converter and connection limits. The controller reduces or stops export before those limits are reached. The duration must be established through detailed sizing and verification for each project, accounting for usable energy, losses, degradation and the supported load.

No. Wind and solar generation have no fuel cost, but dependable power still has operating, maintenance and replacement costs. FIU develops the complete supply system to improve long-term cost control, including the electricity and reserves needed when renewable output is low.

Through a defined metering and verification approach covering generation, consumption and storage. Hourly matching and contractual claims are assessed against the applicable requirements. Annual certificates alone do not establish that renewable supply matched demand in every hour.

FIU develops powered shells and complete data-centre infrastructure, with the delivery scope agreed for each project. Operators run the data centre, while operators or tenants arrange their compute equipment and its financing. Ownership, guarantees and accounting treatment depend on the contracts and applicable requirements; they are not predetermined by FIU’s infrastructure model.

A European platform with a British start. We apply a common origination and development method across markets, while resolving connection, planning and customer requirements in each jurisdiction.