https://www.positive.news/society/data-centres-heating-swimming-pools/
"Now here’s a novel solution for cash-strapped councils: use data centres to
heat public swimming pools.
It’s an idea that’s gaining traction in the UK thanks to the tech firm, Deep
Green. It captures excess heat created by its data centres and repurposes it
for free in the community.
“Around 45% of a traditional data centre’s energy demand is just cooling – they
produce a lot of heat,” Deep Green’s founder and CEO, Mark Bjornsgaard, told
Positive News.
“The method we use to share the heat with swimming pools also cools the
computers down. So, the pool gets free heating and Deep Green gets free
cooling.”
The firm has already piloted the idea at Exmouth Leisure Centre in Devon. The
washing machine-sized data centre there heats up a reservoir of oil that is
then pumped into a heat exchanger to warm the pool.
Deep Green is now scaling the concept thanks to Octopus Energy, a green energy
provider, which this week invested £200m into the project – enough to see
around 150 pools heated this way, though Deep Green has not yet released the
locations of those pools.
“Demand is there,” said Bjornsgaard. “I think pretty much every pool in the
northern hemisphere has got in touch with us.”"
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
