{"id":6200,"date":"2018-02-12T10:40:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T09:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/?p=6200\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T15:02:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T14:02:26","slug":"cloud-computing-discovered-warm-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/en\/6200\/cloud-computing-discovered-warm-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud computing discovered… warm water!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In The Netherlands is it possible to heat water with a computer<\/strong>. Well, let\u2019s better explain it, heating water using the waste heat from servers<\/a><\/strong>. We\u2019ve talked about it already in a previous article<\/a> a few weeks ago, and we are pleased to go more in depth in this interesting project: the innovative idea comes from the start up Nerdalize<\/strong><\/a>, and consists in the recovery of the waste heat produced by a distributed network of servers<\/strong>, installed at homes, employed to produce hot tap water<\/strong>. Servers in traditional datacenters<\/strong><\/a> consume a lot of energy and produce a lot of waste heat, requiring the 40% of the electricity consumed for server\u2019s cooling.<\/p>\n

The Nerdalize solution optimizes in a smart way the energy consumption, and the company built its own heating device that integrates the computer servers in it, able to manage the heat exchange<\/strong><\/a> from the servers to hot water. The system is called CloudBox<\/strong><\/a> and comes with a boiler tank, and is an add-on easy to install in existing central heating systems<\/strong>. Installation is handled by the company, which also pays the energy used by the servers.<\/p>\n