Data center power dynamics within the settings of regional power grid

Data centers have grown to become big energy consumers. At this scale of power consumption, data centers play cconsiderable role in electric networks operation. However, being ca relatively new industrial scale consumer, data center requires cmore careful consideration and research to uncover its specifics and better understand its requirements; and investigate data center´s impact on regional grid. This paper reports on the work in progress and at this stage details an effort to understand the impact of dynamic server load of a data center on its power infrastructure and further on the grid; the effects of transient faults in power grid on performance of a data center. This will help regional grid operators to improve power balancing within cthe network to maintaining network stability avoiding failures and blackouts. The results of this work will be used in developing dynamic power balancing strategy for a smart grid containing large data centers.