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Summary
Nestled away in the heart of Queen Mary University in London (QMUL) is a data center. The facility, a vital resource for particle physics research at CERN, the home of the Large Hadron Collider, harbors a secret that is only apparent when you step inside its humid halls.
Walking into the data hall, you are struck by the heat resonating from the numerous server racks, each capable of handling up to 20kW of compute. However, rather than allowing this heat to dissipate into the atmosphere, the team at QMUL had another plan. Instead, in partnership with Schneider Electric, the university deployed a novel heat reuse system.
The system captures the warmed water used to cool the server racks and transfers it to three water-to-water heat pumps. Here, the temperature of the water is increased from a balmy 23°C (73.4 °F) to a steamy 65-75°C (149-167°F), with the water then piped directly into the university’s district heating system.
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