The growing datacenter sector is faced by challenges like limited power availability, requirements on grid integration and heat reuse and

higher density IT more difficult to cool in addition to the urge to be more sustainable. RISE, the leading data center technology research institute in Europe, is partnering with several high-profile companies like Ericsson, Meta, ABB, Vattenfall, Vertiv and Castrol to solve parts of the challenges. Projects on gas powered datacenters using fuel cells, liquid cooling for higher densities, grid stabilization support services from data centers and heat-reuse in different application are ongoing as well as energy efficiency efforts and sustainability analysis. In this talk the ongoing work by RISE will be presented.