YANG Lingfang, LIN Yujie, ZHANG Ziquan, et al. Bi-level Expansion Planning of Data Centers With Electricity-heat-computation Coupling System Based on Data-driven Scenario Generation[J]. 2026, 46(15): 6148-6160.
YANG Lingfang, LIN Yujie, ZHANG Ziquan, et al. Bi-level Expansion Planning of Data Centers With Electricity-heat-computation Coupling System Based on Data-driven Scenario Generation[J]. 2026, 46(15): 6148-6160.DOI: 10.13334/j.0258-8013.pcsee.252049.
This work proposes a data-driven expansion planning solution
aiming at environmentally friendly upgrading and uncertainty modelling of data centers (DCs). Firstly
a multi-channel one-dimensional U-net based diffusion model is designed to generate scenarios of source-load multivariate time series
thus coping with the uncertainties. Then
an electricity-heat-computation coupling system expansion model is established
which considers CPU temperature constraints and individual status of servers with the objective of minimizing performance cost. To deal with the non-linearity of server model
a heuristic bi-level solving scheme is presented. At the upper level
the configured number of servers is determined by heuristic algorithm and transferred to the lower lever as a constant
thus making the planning model linear. At the lower level
the planning model is directly solved by commercial solver
and the performance cost is submitted back to the upper level
thereby iteratively obtaining the optimal capacities of servers
cooling systems and energy equipment. Based on a modified 18-node district heating system and an IEEE-14 bus power system
the numerical results confirm that the proposed solution can effectively characterize the source-load uncertainties
improve the energy efficiency and reduce economic cost of DCs.