{"id":618135,"date":"2023-03-15T09:48:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/15\/new-data-centre-turns-waste-heat-into-warm-water-for-swimming-pools\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T09:48:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:48:59","slug":"new-data-centre-turns-waste-heat-into-warm-water-for-swimming-pools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/15\/new-data-centre-turns-waste-heat-into-warm-water-for-swimming-pools\/","title":{"rendered":"New data centre turns waste heat into warm water for swimming pools"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A startup has unveiled a UK-first solution to soaring energy bills: data centre heat.<\/p>\n

The company, called Deep Green<\/a>, installs tiny cloud data<\/a> centres at local businesses. The system then turns heat from the servers into hot water for the host site.<\/p>\n

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Deep Green provides the equipment free of charge and refunds the electricity costs. As a result, the client can cut their carbon emissions and energy bills.<\/p>\n

In exchange, Deep Green gets a home for the data centre, which supplies computer power for AI and machine learning to customers.<\/p>\n

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Computers inside the washing machine-sized data centre are surrounded by oil. Credit: Deep Green.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The \u201cdigital boilers\u201d are now coming to public swimming pools, which are struggling with surging energy costs.<\/p>\n

Across Britain, 85 pools have closed since 2019, the Guardian revealed<\/a> last week. According to trade body UK Active<\/a>, 31% of council areas in England may lose or trim their leisure centres\u00a0after the current energy support scheme ends on 1 April.<\/p>\n

Deep Green today revealed that a fitness club in Devon is already using the digital boiler. Seven other pools in England have also signed up for the scheme.<\/p>\n

To warm them up, the data centre computers are submerged in mineral oil, which captures heat from the machines. The output is then processed through a heat exchanger and into the water.<\/p>\n

The temperature is only topped up when required. According to Deep Green, the system can cut a pool\u2019s gas needs by over 62%, save \u00a320,000 a year, and slash annual carbon emissions by 25.8 tonnes.<\/p>\n

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Deep Green says it can heat the pool to 30C for 60% of the time. Credit: Deep Green.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Deep Green\u2019s tech is unusual, but it\u2019s far from the first company to recycle data centre heat. <\/span><\/p>\n

The concept is particularly popular in the Nordic region. <\/span>In Finland, for instance, <\/span>plans are afoot<\/span><\/a> to use waste heat from two new Microsoft data centres to warm homes and businesses in and around Helsinki.<\/span><\/p>\n

The project, however, relies on extensive public infrastructure. The data centres will connect to a 900km network of underground pipes to reach users in the region.<\/p>\n

Deep Green applies a very different approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cRather than building a data centre, and then finding ways to connect it to local communities, Deep Green installs the data centres directly where the heat is needed,\u201d Mark Bjornsgaard, CEO of Deep Green, told TNW via email.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy utilising a modular approach and building our data centres<\/span> within \u2018the fabric of society,\u2019\u00a0we bring the heat to the user, reducing energy lost in transportation and increasing the efficiency of energy recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Bjornsgaard, around 30% of industrial and commercial heat demand\u00a0 could be met by Deep Green\u2019s tech.<\/p>\n

Just don\u2019t tell the crypto bros \u2014 or your local pool may soon host a Bitcoin mining rig.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Thomas Macaulay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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