The Anonymous Widower

Tiny Data Centre Used To Heat Public Swimming Pool

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on the BBC.

This is the sub-heading.

The heat generated by a washing-machine-sized data centre is being used to heat a Devon public swimming pool

These three paragraphs outline the story.

The computers inside the white box are surrounded by oil to capture the heat – enough to heat the pool to about 30C 60% of the time, saving Exmouth Leisure Centre thousands of pounds.

The data centre is provided to the council-run centre free of charge.

Start-up Deep Green charges clients to use its computing power for artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Note.

  1. Deep Green has a web site.
  2. thermify do something similar for homes.

I find both of these interesting applications.

March 14, 2023 Posted by | Artificial Intelligence, Computing, Energy | , , , , , | Leave a comment