Waste heat from computers will cool other computers
By Janet Fang | June 27, 2013, 1:33 PM PDT
Say you can’t move your entire data center to the edge of the Arctic Circle, where it’s constantly frigid and the electricity is cheap. How do you cool the furnace-like heat that big data-storage spaces generate?
Use hot water from computers to drive the refrigeration of others. IEEE Spectrum reports.
“The electrical energy that goes into the computer is converted into heat, essentially, and if you could reuse that heat somehow, then you recover a large part of the energy and the cost that you put into this,” says Tilo Wettig at the University of Regensburg in Germany.
Use hot water from computers to drive the refrigeration of others. IEEE Spectrum reports.
“The electrical energy that goes into the computer is converted into heat, essentially, and if you could reuse that heat somehow, then you recover a large part of the energy and the cost that you put into this,” says Tilo Wettig at the University of Regensburg in Germany.
