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It’s not often that you get to see the future. But when it comes to data center cooling technology, ARPA-E’s COOLERCHIPS shortlist of 15 funded projects could provide a glimpse of what’s on the horizon. Cooling Operations Optimized for Leaps in Energy, Reliability, and Carbon Hyperefficiency for Information Processing Systems – to give COOLERCHIPS its full title – spells out the ambitions of the ARPA-E program.
Data centers generate a huge amount of heat – enough to warm council offices, university buildings, corporate headquarters, and thousands of homes. How do we know? Because all of those examples are actual projects where waste heat from data centers – operated by Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and others – contribute to district heating systems.
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