Postsecondary institutions are increasingly examining the potential for on-campus power generation, writes Adam Stone of EdTech. These “microgrids” deliver power to facilities across campus, as if the campus were its own small city. Stone explains that the benefits of microgrids are severalfold: powering campus when the main grid loses power, providing a revenue source to the institution through electricity buyback schemes, and increasingly, meeting the increasing demand for power from AI applications and servers on campus. Steve Gillum, solutions manager at IT provider CDW, explained that for campuses with the need to power 10 or more AI solutions, “The microgrid is going to be the only thing that’s going to be able to support that.”
