Data centers routinely face multi-year delays before receiving utility power. These delays threaten expansion timelines and, in some cases, viability of planned facilities.

Data centers’ scale, growth rate, and power-quality requirements mean co-located battery energy storage systems (BESS) are no longer optional — they are foundational to continued expansion.

Convergent understands the need to get online more quickly and stay there. We’re here to supercharge your data center’s growth.

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What Data Centers Need to Know About Battery Storage

U.S. data centers are projected to grow from ~4% of total electricity consumption today to 8–12% by 2030. Learn more about how battery storage can help data centers like yours get online more quickly … and stay there.
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Data Center Power Constraints

 U.S. data centers are projected to grow from ~4% of total electricity consumption today to 8–12% by 2030. Power availability and interconnection timelines are now the primary determinants of data center site viability. 

Why Traditional Power Solutions Don’t Work

On-site generation is slow, costly, and infrastructure-heavy

Diesel generators are facing increasing emissions scrutiny and offer limited operational flexibility

UPS-only architecture is designed to cover only very short durations 

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Why Battery Storage is Mission Critical

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How Battery Storage Can Supercharge Your Data Center

On-site battery energy storage enables data centers to accelerate interconnection, reduce operational risk, and operate reliably within increasingly constrained electric grids.

Battery storage can help data centers …

Accelerate first-power

Accommodate evolving compliance requirements

Reduce energy costs

Maintain up time and power quality 

Enable growth on strained grid

Advance ESG and sustainability goals 

Accelerate Your Interconnection With Battery Storage

Get Online: Accelerate First Power

Today, interconnection queues increasingly determine how quickly data centers can reach commercial operation. In PJM, MISO, and parts of ERCOT, transmission-level load additions can face four- to eight-year timelines, with additional uncertainty tied to required network upgrades. In too many cases, full grid capacity is not immediately available at energization.

Battery storage can serve as a strategic bridge to “first power” by reducing peak grid draw, smoothing ramp rates, and limiting the immediate impact of large-load additions. By lowering net demand at critical intervals, battery storage can help align load growth with available grid capacity, potentially enabling phased energization while longer-term transmission upgrades are completed. This approach can support tenant onboarding without waiting for full transmission build-out.

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Stay Online: Reduce Operational Risks

Data centers depend on continuous, high-quality power to meet stringent uptime and SLA requirements. As grid conditions become more dynamic, operators increasingly face exposure to voltage disturbances, peak demand volatility, and curtailment risk. On-site battery storage directly mitigates these risks by providing an instantaneous response to power fluctuations, stabilizing load ramps, and supporting short-duration grid events without interrupting operations.

In addition to resiliency support, battery storage reduces exposure to peak, demand, and capacity charges by shaping load profiles and managing coincident peaks. Battery storage can also reduce generator runtime by handling fast-response events and short-duration disturbances, preserving backup assets for true outage scenarios. The result is improved operational flexibility, reduced reliance on thermal assets for transient events, and enhanced power quality, strengthening overall reliability while maintaining compliance with large-load or demand response programs.

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Get Online: Accelerate First Power

Stay Online: Reduce Operational Risks

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(up to) 40% reduction in industrial customers’ utility bills.
 
 
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