Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Danfoss have developed a modular data center that utilizes server heat so effectively that it can be used as a thermal power station. It can be flexibly positioned wherever there are consumers, e.g. close to district heating networks.
The rapidly growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an energy and environmental problem. The use of server heat could dramatically improve the energy balance of AI. Example: the data centers in Frankfurt/Main could cover the entire heating requirements of the city's private and office buildings.
But at present, the waste heat is hardly used - on the contrary: it is released into the outside air at additional expense. The data center developed by HPE and Danfoss overcomes organizational and technical hurdles that previously stood in the way of heat utilization.
At the Hannover Messe, HPE and Danfoss will be presenting the core components of the solution: a) a server rack in which cooling liquid is pumped directly into the servers to absorb their heat, b) a heat recovery module with which the heat is passed on to heating systems, c) a whirlpool as a heat consumer.
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