Article published online by Data Center Knowledge 18 June 2024
Data center companies worldwide are investing in sustainable technologies with a focus on heat reuse potential.
For instance, Facebook’s facility in Odense, Denmark, recycles warm air from the data center to heat nearby homes, while Quarnot Computing, a start-up in France, distributes data center heat through digital heaters, offering free heat to customers. Elsewhere, atNorth’s SWE01 site in Sweden is equipped with a recovery system for both air-cooled and liquid-cooled IT infrastructures. All the residual heat from the data center is recycled in collaboration with the local district heating provider. This initiative, at full capacity, will be able to heat tens of thousands of apartments in the area.
Like atNorth, many data centers in Sweden have committed to carbon reduction enterprises like the Climate Neutral Data Center Pact. Fredrik Jansson, spokesperson for atNorth, says they are in active pursuit of heat reuse methods whether within greenhouse environments or for fish farming.
“The ability to recycle waste heat from data center cooling processes also enables clients to decarbonize their digital infrastructure,” Jansson told Data Center Knowledge.
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