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 selling some heat to neighbours, heating the offices and keep some DC-related machinery at optimal temperature with DC-originated heat - Natixis (a bank) is pumping their DC's heat into the municipal heat system of a small village near Disneyland. - Stimergy, and animation studio in Paris is heating a nearby pool with the heat from their compute farm. ... and those are just the cases that got press coverage.
On Mon, May 23, 2022, at 10:08, 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 the water in a swimming pool.
