Alliance for Compute and Electrification
Moving compute to clean power.
ACE Europe is building an alliance of industry, energy and research organisations to connect Europe’s data centre build-out with its renewable power.
First instrument: Compute Energy, a market that shifts computing workloads to where clean electricity is in surplus.
Europe has the power and the demand. They are in the wrong places.
200 TWh
of wind and solar curtailed worldwide in 2025, heading for 850 TWh by 2031
IEA, Renewables 202668%
of data centre operators name grid connection as their top concern
Deloitte and Agora Energiewende, 20266.5 GW
of extra data centre load France could host if that load were flexible for 0.25% of its annual use
IEA, Powering Artificial Intelligence, 2026Grid connection is the binding constraint on new compute in Europe. Renewable output is curtailed in one region while data centres queue for power in another. ACE Europe exists to make the two meet.
There is a lot of bullishness about AI data centres in the US, but not in Europe. The main fear is regulatory uncertainty.
Compute follows the sun and the wind.
- 01
Signal
Grid and market data show where clean power is in surplus or the grid is congested.
- 02
Trade
Data centres in those regions offer capacity by the hour. Companies buy it for training runs, batch jobs and other work that can run anywhere.
- 03
Shift
The job runs at the receiving site. Load falls at the sending site.
- 04
Verify
Every trade records, hour by hour, the load that left and the load that arrived. That record is what regulators need to credit flexibility.
Seasonal pattern after Deloitte and Agora Energiewende, Value and Enablers of Data Centre Flexibility in Europe, 2026.
Compute Energy, the first ACE Europe instrument, is planned to launch in January 2027.
Anticipated timeline
November 2026
Working meetings with energy agencies and prospective founding members
December 2026
Founding members and governance to be confirmed
January 2027
Planned public launch of Compute Energy, timed with the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (format to be confirmed)
This timeline is deliberately ambitious. Dates will be updated as partners confirm.
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