Recently, Microsoft has partnered with a Finnish energy company Fortum to heat homes, services and businesses in Finland with sustainable waste heat from a new datacentre.
- Microsoft Microsoft has planned to build this datacentre in Finland.
- Global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky estimates over 75% of a datacentre’s electricity becomes waste heat.
What is Waste heat?
- Waste heat is the unused heat given to the surrounding environment (in the form of thermal energy) by a heat engine in a thermodynamic process in which it converts heat to useful work.
- Waste heat is everywhere. Every time an engine runs, a machine clunks away, or any work is done by anything, heat is generated.
- The scale of this invisible garbage is huge: About 70 percent of all the energy produced by humanity gets chucked as waste heat.
Using waste heat
- In winter, a datacentre can provide heating up to 85°F with better energy efficiency than a heat pump in a new house.
- Finnish energy company will capture the excess heat generated by the new datacentre region and transfer the clean heat from the server cooling process to homes, services and business premises that are connected to the district heating system.
- The recycled waste heat can provide clean heat to homes, businesses and public buildings in the Finish capital Helsinki, and reduce up to 4,00,000 tons of CO2 emissions annually .
What is a datacentre?
- A datacentre is a physical facility that organisations use to store their critical applications and data, process data and disseminate them to users.
- The key components of a datacentre are routers, switches, firewalls, storage systems, servers, and application-delivery controllers.
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