Comments on: Data Centers Heat Offices, Greenhouses, Pools

By: Six Strategies for Sustainable IT | The ITAM Review

Six Strategies for Sustainable IT | The ITAM Review — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:35:38 +0000

[...] companies including IBM, Facebook and Hydro are harvesting electricity from datacenters to be used for heating elsewhere. IT automation and optimization of data centers is widespread, and Google (and soon IBM) keeps [...]

By: Energy 2.0 – Energy Harvesting through CrowdSourcing in the coming Future « ArindamSpace

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:53:01 +0000

[...] hot aisles range from 80 to 115 degrees Fahrenheit (27 to 46 degrees Celsius). A growing number of data centers are redirecting the heat from their hot aisles to nearby homes, offices, greenhouses and even pools. Example, an IBM data [...]

By: Todd Boucher

Todd Boucher — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:05:12 +0000

Mark:

Interesting that you say that… we were speaking with another college in MA recently and they made reference to that specific installation at WPI. We may be looking to implement something similar with this client. We have not personally seen it done anywhere else but it was certainly a progressive thought for 1986 that would still work today. Thank you for bringing it up!

By: Mark MacAuley

Mark MacAuley — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:08:14 +0000

Rich,

The first example I ever saw of this was at Worcester Polytechnic Institute back in 1986. They vented the heat from their computer room to a space just beneath the tiled walkway going into the library (I think it was the library).

Anyway, in the winter it melted the snow and ice which is abundant several months a year and cut out a lot of slip and fall risk. Does anyone in the DCK universe know if they still do that? If so, it’s 23 year old technology still plugging away. Green and practical ahead of their time…