Recycling of excess data center heat a growing trend

摘要

From warming greenhouses and swimming pools to supplying municipal district energy networks, an increasing number of data centers are finding ways to reuse the waste heat generated by the aisles of servers they house. As the global demand for cloud computing rises - as more of us shop online, post on social media and download music - so too grows the push by data centers to boost their energy efficiency. District heating technology may be able to help.