Location and Cost Optimization of Datacenters and Solar Power Plants

Abstract

The location deployment of datacenters and solar power plants involves various factors including local economic situation, land price, electricity price and so on. The selection and optimization of a large number of parameters make the decision-making process complicated and time-consuming. To solve this problem, an optimization framework is designed for the location deployment of datacenters and solar power plants in the power grid, considering transmission loss of the power grid system, the cost and revenue of datacenters and solar power plants. Under the constraint conditions to ensure the stable operation of the power grid, the appropriate deployment scheme of datacenters and solar power plants is found by solving the established optimization problem. Experimental results show that in the case of a single solar power plant and a single datacenter, the proposed strategy can reduce the cost of solar power plant by 11.6% and the transmission loss by 18.6%. In the case of a single solar power plant and two datacenters, the scheme found by our proposed method could increase the annual revenue of the datacenter and greatly reduce the total transmission loss.