Cloud strategies usually begin with software, security, compliance and economics. Power turns up later, as a practical question of capacity and connection.

That order makes less and less sense.

A datacentre is physical infrastructure. Servers need power, cooling and networking, and as the demand for computing capacity rises, access to energy becomes a decisive part of the cloud’s architecture.

The usual order should be reversed

Traditionally, you find a site for the datacentre and then investigate how the necessary power can be brought to it. That can require extensive grid reinforcement and lengthy connection processes in an electricity grid that already has to absorb the electrification of transport, industry and heating.

At Edora Cloud we work in the opposite order: the datacentre is placed where the energy is produced.

Denmark has substantial production of renewable energy from wind and sun. The challenge is not only how much power is produced, but also where it is available, and whether the grid has the capacity to carry it onwards.

When computing capacity is placed directly in the energy park, the power can be used closer to where it is generated. The data travels through fibre instead.

It is easier to move data than power.

Fibre makes the location less dependent on the user

A datacentre does not have to sit next door to the organisation using it. Fibre connections make it possible to move large volumes of data between users, datacentres and other locations with high capacity and low latency.

That opens up a different geographical logic.

The datacentre can be sited according to the access to energy, while an optical network connects the infrastructure with customers and other cloud locations. Proximity to energy production therefore becomes more important, without the datacentre having to sit close to the largest cities.

Edora Cloud is working with Eurowind Energy and Aalborg University to develop datacentres located in energy parks. The first facility is planned at an energy park in Mariagerfjord Municipality in Denmark.

Here, energy production, datacentre capacity and cloud infrastructure are designed together from the outset.

Energy is also a question of preparedness

The location is not only about climate and capacity. It also matters for the robustness of the digital infrastructure.

Large, centrally located datacentres concentrate a great deal of capacity at a few addresses. That makes for efficient operations, but it also concentrates the physical vulnerability. A local power cut, a severed connection or a physical incident can have major consequences if too much depends on the same location.

Smaller datacentre units distributed across several energy parks make a more distributed model possible. The locations can be linked through a closed optical network, while the cloud platform is established across the infrastructure.

Actual robustness always depends on how workloads, data and failover are designed. But the geographical distribution creates a better physical starting point for avoiding a situation where one location becomes a critical point of failure.

For organisations in defence, public administration, energy, utilities, finance, healthcare and transport, that is part of digital preparedness.

The physical foundation of the cloud belongs in the strategy

The choice of cloud is often reduced to features, price and compliance. Those criteria still matter, but they do not describe the whole infrastructure.

Organisations with critical workloads should also know:

• Where is the power for the infrastructure produced?
• How is data moved between the locations?
• Which connections and energy supplies does the operation depend on?
• What happens if a location or a connection fails?
• Who owns and controls the platform, the network and the operation?

The answers matter more and more as cloud carries a growing share of society’s critical functions.

Tomorrow’s cloud therefore requires more than additional servers in bigger datacentres. It requires a closer connection between energy, fibre, cloud technology and preparedness.

It begins with the location.

The choice of cloud and the question of energy can therefore no longer be kept apart. Where data is processed also determines where the power comes from, how stable it is, and how vulnerable operations become if the energy market falters.

From where the data sits to where the power comes from

Most organisations now have an answer to where their data sits. Fewer can say where the power for those datacentres comes from, how stable it is, and what it means for their CO2 accounting.

That is becoming a problem for two reasons. More and more parties – customers, owners and regulators alike – are demanding to see energy consumption documented, not merely asserted. And for organisations in critical infrastructure, an uncertain energy base also means uncertain operations. Energy supply has become a question of preparedness.

The datacentre belongs where the power is produced

The usual approach is to build a datacentre in a convenient place and pull power to it across the grid, with the losses and the dependence that brings. We have turned it around.

Edora’s datacentres are placed in the energy parks, where the wind and solar power is generated. It has been developed together with Eurowind Energy and Aalborg University, and the first one will be ready in Mariagerfjord in the autumn of 2026. By putting the computing capacity close to the production, we reach up to 95% renewable energy and markedly less waste along the way.

For you, that means two things. You get a cloud whose energy consumption you can document rather than explain. And you get an infrastructure whose energy base is part of the solution rather than a hidden risk.

Green operations have to stand up to scrutiny

A great deal is said about green IT, and some of it is hard to verify. We stick to what can be counted: where the power comes from, how much of it is renewable, and how the datacentres sit in relation to the production.

That is not a claim, it is a design choice. Green operations are built into where and how the infrastructure stands, not bought as a certificate afterwards. That is the kind that holds up when an auditor or a regulator asks for the figures behind it.

Whether you are choosing a cloud or reviewing the one you have, bring the energy in from the start. Not as an afterthought, but as one of the things that decides how robust your operations will be for many years to come.