Euronews Green
Summary
When the high tech world of data centres touches the fabric of public life, it’s generally given positive coverage.
From warming a swimming pool in Devon to keeping students in Dublin toasty, these data processing hubs get good press when they pass on the heat they generate.
Location is a huge factor behind data centre usage and Deep Green is on a mission to decentralise the tech. If more companies switch over to its ‘cleaner’ computing services, the start-up says it could deploy boxes at all public swimming pools in England. And the more work happening in its servers, the hotter they get.
Recycling data centre heat is nothing new. In 2010, Finnish IT company Academica installed a 2MW data centre in the caves beneath Helsinki’s Orthodox Uspenski Cathedral.
Water warmed while cooling the servers provides heat for hundreds of homes in the city via its district heating system.
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