Power from Free State solar farm set to be ‘wheeled’

New battery technology now exists to store electricity from renewables in data centres around the country

14 April 2024 - 00:00

By ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK

Africa Data Centres (ADC) has begun construction of a new solar farm in the Free State that will transmit power, via Eskom and municipal grids, to its data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

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