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Jul 2026
Designing Data Centers for Demand Response Through a Construction-Phase Readiness Index
This article integrates three previously separate bodies of literature into a single framework that prices construction-phase flexibility as a portfolio of real options, pairing elicitation-derived (FAHP) weights with simulation-derived (Sobol) variance indices, and formalizes the decision as stochastic optimal control under irreversibility.
A. Shafaghat, Da Hu, Ali Keyvanfar
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