One of the reasons why many foreign companies choose to come to Romania is the significant contribution of renewable energy, said Gabriel Tache, Country Sales Manager at Eaton Electric.

“One of the reasons many companies come here, including companies building data centres, is that more than 85% of the energy is green, if you add the hydroelectric area,” Tache said, at the conference “Digitalization and Energy Efficiency – Cluj-Napoca” organised by Energynomics and the Italian Chamber of Commerce for Romania – CCIpR.

For Eaton, digital transformation is a priority, but Romania is still at an early stage. The group is also involved in data centre management.

Eaton reported 2021 net income of 2.1 billion dollars and annual sales of more than 19 billion dollars. The company employs about 85,000 people in 175 countries.

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According to Tache, digitisation and the increasing penetration of artificial intelligence will require a huge amount of computing capacity, which in turn will require a huge amount of energy generated from renewable sources.

The conference “Digitalization and Energy Efficiency – Cluj-Napoca” was organised by Energynomics and the Italian Chamber of Commerce for Romania – CCIpR, with the support of our partners: ADC, ABB, BCR, CRC Energy, Datacor, Eaton Electric, Elektra Renewable Support, EnergoBit, Exim Banca Românească, Fortza Solar, MET Energy Romania, Polytrade Global, Nofar, WALDEVAR Energy.