Heat Serving

Providing centralized server space and then use the heat produced by servers to heat other building.

Long description

With the ever developing world and more and more businesses and people looking to the internet, the demand for server space is going to keep increasing. Today many companies have their own small-scale server racks for their needs. This is however unnecessarily expensive and hard to increase the capacity of. One of the reason why it is expensive is the cost of cooling everything down as computers produce a lot of heat. So today a lot of energy is firstly used to power and indirectly heat up servers and then used to cool these down, which is obviously very wasteful. Using water cooling technology already available however, this heat could instead be transported and used to heat buildings in the city of Amsterdam. This way you could  both cool down hot buildings and heat up buildings in need of heating without really impacting or changing the region whilst also meeting a demand from businesses.

Because the demand of server space and halls is large and increasing, and to make this the most efficient it could be, space could be provided in, around or under for example business parks spread throughout the region as a way to centralize this demand and harness the energy produced.

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