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The University at Buffalo last week announced that its North Campus will reuse heat energy put off by a supercomputing center being developed with funding from the state government and philanthropists.
According to press materials, the arrangement will “significantly” reduce carbon emissions. The supercomputing initiative, called Empire AI, is intended to promote general research and advance work that betters humanity.
The energy project will include connecting the supercomputing center to a chilled water plant via 30-inch “neutral temperature” water pipes and a network of geothermal wells. According to the release, “this integrated system will allow heat generated by Empire AI’s high-performance computing infrastructure to be recovered and redistributed to campus buildings, reducing overall energy use and accelerating UB’s path to carbon neutrality.”
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