USE OF EXCESS HEAT FROM THE DATA CENTERS IN DISTRICT HEATING

Abstract

Excessive heat production from data centers can lead to energy efficiency improvements and reduce the costs of production and consumption. In the future, it is expected that waste heat recovery will become a trend, especially in countries such as Scandinavia. The purpose of this thesis is to explain how this system works, collect various data and find out how effective it is from a practical and economic point of view. Another purpose of this work is to study and analyze the data and examine how effective and profitable this system is. It will be based on various scientific papers as well as numerous data from the Finnish energy industry. The main result of this work is the proof that this system can seriously reduce emissions into the atmosphere, as well as reduce the cost of heat production. In the conclusion of the work I have done, it can be seen that despite the many difficulties I have been able to achieve all the results, although there is still much room for improvement.