Re: [uknof] Waste heat from data centres

2022-05-25 Thread Brandon Butterworth
On Wed May 25, 2022 at 10:31:44PM +0100, Tom Hill wrote: > To this day I can't think of anywhere in the UK that uses more heating. > They're always absolutely roasting inside. Probably few places more > deserving of free heating, too. Many DC have tried (inc Telehouse), at the BBC we tried to gi

Re: [uknof] Waste heat from data centres

2022-05-25 Thread Tom Hill
On 22/05/2022 19:55, Paul Mansfield wrote: So on the subject alone: my boss at ~$job['0'] said his wife once asked him why they couldn't pump the heat generated by data centres into an old folks' home... To this day I can't think of anywhere in the UK that uses more heating. They're alway

Re: [uknof] Waste heat from data centres

2022-05-25 Thread Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN
Hi, We have a few cases in France. - Equinix PA6 is heating a tropical greenhouse. I read about one of their Amsterdam DCs heating a neighbouring campus - OVH is using heat from their Roubaix DCs to heat their own offices and some neighbouring businesses. - CIV Datacenter (Lille) is also sell

Re: [uknof] Waste heat from data centres

2022-05-23 Thread David Walters
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 9:15 AM Paul Mansfield wrote: > I've thought that maybe a data centre built right next to an office > block, hotel and sports complex could make sense, then the low grade > heat from the data centre could be used directly to warm the air, and > using some heat pumps warm th

Re: [uknof] Waste heat from data centres

2022-05-23 Thread Paul Mansfield
I've thought that maybe a data centre built right next to an office block, hotel and sports complex could make sense, then the low grade heat from the data centre could be used directly to warm the air, and using some heat pumps warm the water in a swimming pool.

[uknof] Waste heat from data centres

2022-05-22 Thread Paul Mansfield
I'd be interested to hear what uknoffers think of this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9b34FfZWuXU I think Dave@Just Have A Think tries v hard to get the facts straight, so how do you think he did? Thanks