Dublin InQuirer
Summary
Inside data centres in Clonmont Developments are rows and rows of computers, basically, where things like your emails and photos are stored. In the same way your phone or laptop gets hot when you use it, these computers get hot too.
There are several data centres in the Clonshaugh Business and Technology Park. And Aileen Malone wants to know whether they can share their waste heat with the neighbourhood – sending it through pipes to people’s radiators.
It’s been done in Tallaght, after all, and there’s a scheme like this in planning for part of Blanchardstown too. So why not Coolock too?
“These are within 600 metres of my home as the crow flies,” she said. “Wouldn’t it have made sense to insist on district heating when these centres were being planned so as to benefit the local area of Coolock?”
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