Use the heat from data centers sensibly
Deep Green is a British data center startup. The environmentally conscious company has dealt a lot with what is probably the biggest sticking point in the industry: how to deal with the heat that data centers give off. “Data centers have a huge problem with heat. A large part of the cost of running a data center goes to getting rid of the heat. So we put a small piece of a data center in a place where the heat is useful and even needed ‘ Deep Green founder Mark Bjornsgaard told the BBC. Specifically, the startup offers free boilers that can be used, for example, to heat the water in public swimming pools. The only thing that the heat buyers have to provide is a suitable mains connection – for the installation of which Deep Green provides low-interest loans. The data center takes care of everything else: “We pay for all the electricity that our boilers consume in advance,” says the website. In addition, Deep Green pays for all maintenance costs.
Why is this worthwhile for Deep Green?
With the boilers from Deep Green, a public swimming pool with a 25-meter pool should be able to reduce its energy consumption by up to 70 percent and save almost 8,000 euros a month – the concept is definitely worthwhile for the heat consumer, meanwhile, according to BBC nominated at least eight swimming pools in England for the project.
It’s also worthwhile for Deep Green: Other operators are apparently now building their data centers under water, in very cold places or in caves in order to cool them appropriately. Deep Green saves these costs by offering its heat free of charge to companies, institutions or even homeowners for heating.
Deep Green thinks about climate protection
In fact, Deep Green is not the first operator of a data center to implement this idea: According to the BBC, the heat from data centers in Denmark and Sweden has long been used in thousands of homes – climate protection is also considered here. Because all the heat produced by the data centers anyway, which is used sensibly, does not have to be produced elsewhere with high energy consumption.
The concept suits Deep Green: On its website, the startup states that it uses 60 percent less electricity than operators of other data centers – and is also CO2-neutral. It follows the motto “Cloud computing that doesn’t cost the earth”. According to the young company, it wants to replace all data centers that do not use heat by 2035.
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