Inside Iron Mountain’s data center battery project

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The New Jersey installation was motivated by the data center company’s need to improve access to reliable, lower-carbon power.

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Inside Iron Mountain’s data center battery project

Iron Mountain is installing a 23 megawatt-hour energy storage system at its New Jersey data center to reduce its reliance on the local electric grid and cut greenhouse gas emissions generated by the site.

The system, scheduled to be switched on before the end of 2026, uses standard lithium-ion batteries from Tesla. It will be integrated with an existing 7.2-megawatt rooftop solar array installed about six years ago, but Iron Mountain expects to manage the installations separately.

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