Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy

ISSN 2196-5625 CN 32-1884/TK

Coordinating Multiple Geo-distributed Data Centers for Enhanced Participation in Frequency Regulation Services Under Uncertainty
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1.State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Macau, Macau, China;2.Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

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This paper was supported in part by the Science and Technology Development Fund, Macau SAR, China (No. 001/2024/SKL, No. 0053/2022/AMJ).

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    Data centers are promising demand-side flexible resources that can provide frequency regulation services to power grids. While most existing studies focus on individual data centers, coordinating multiple geo-distributed data centers can significantly enhance operational flexibility and market participation. However, the inherent uncertainty in both data center workloads and regulation signals pose significant challenges to maintaining effective operations, let alone determining regulation capacity offerings. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a coordinated bidding strategy for electricity purchases and regulation capacity offerings for multiple geo-distributed data centers in electricity markets. This strategy expands the feasible region of operational decisions, including workload dispatch, server activation, and cooling behaviors. To enhance the participation of data centers in frequency regulation services under uncertainty, chance-constrained programming is adopted. This paper presents explicit models for these uncertainties involved, starting with the Poisson-distributed workloads and then addressing the unpredictable regulation signals. Numerical experiments based on real-world datasets validate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy compared with state-of-the-art strategies.

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  • Received:September 20,2024
  • Revised:December 22,2024
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  • Online: September 17,2025
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