Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool
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Re: Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool
#2Something I have been wondering: Why don't data centres use the excess heat for a sort of energy recuperation, turning at least some of it back into electricity?
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#3Something I have been wondering: Why don't data centres use the excess heat for a sort of energy recuperation, turning at least some of it back into electricity?
I saw on TV a long time ago that a funeral home's "energy" (burning bodies) was used to heat homes somewhere in Europe.
We can just use data centers for heating too...maybe turn around all these protests against them
Re: Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool
#4Something I have been wondering: Why don't data centres use the excess heat for a sort of energy recuperation, turning at least some of it back into electricity?
I saw on TV a long time ago that a funeral home's "energy" (burning bodies) was used to heat homes somewhere in Europe. We can just use data centers for heating too...maybe turn around all these protests against them
If wishes were fishes.
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#5Bathhouse in New York wrote about this. Not sure they still do it to this day.
https://help.abathhouse.com/hc/en-us/articles/16748674443924...
Re: Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool
#6Something I have been wondering: Why don't data centres use the excess heat for a sort of energy recuperation, turning at least some of it back into electricity?
I saw on TV a long time ago that a funeral home's "energy" (burning bodies) was used to heat homes somewhere in Europe. We can just use data centers for heating too...maybe turn around all these protests against them
There's lots of district heating in Germany for example, but it's usually fed from either big heat pumps, bio mass plants, or heat from waste incineration plants. There's no reason to not use excess heat from data centres too - I'm pretty sure I read that already being done in several places.
But in some cases, a data centre might be too remotely located, or the infrastructure is too lacking to make it economically feasible, which still leaves me wondering why you couldn't try to recuperate at least some of it as electricity on-site...
Re: Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool
#7Something I have been wondering: Why don't data centres use the excess heat for a sort of energy recuperation, turning at least some of it back into electricity?
It's not anywhere near hot enough to generate steam and make electricity.
There are uses for low grade heat but they require colocation and careful design, which costs more than just dumping the heat.
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#8I don't understand how a server (the "washing-machine-sized datacenter") can heat up any fraction of a swimming pool appreciably. Wouldn't it be a few kW tops?
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#9All data centers that are in controversial areas should offer free heated swimming pools for the neighborhood. You could add a giant pool complex as a percentage or two of the cost of a big data center.
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#10Equinix AM3 provides heat to the Amsterdam Science Park.
Undisclosed large Swiss private corporate datacenter provides heat to residential complexes in the surrounding area, as well as being integrated with the grid operator and required to spin up generators and island itself on demand, as part of the license to operate.
Many such cases!