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Amazon will heat the new "eco-friendly" campus hot water supplied from the data center
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Journalists are invited to посмотреть a new campus under construction Amazon's Seattle, both of which will feature unusual futuristic architecture and way of heating - hot water for the building will be delivered from the data center Westin Building. This method is efficient enough to heat more than 370,000 m 2 sup> Square Amazon and nearby office buildings, then chilled water will go back to the data center. This concept has been called the city authorities "eco-region».
In addition to the office building next to it will be a special transparent "eco-friendly" areas, which should serve as Amazon employees place to relax and socialize in the natural environment. This "park" will be composed of more than 300 different trees and plants brought from more than 30 countries, which will take care of specialized personnel. The biggest "Eco-Sphere" will have a diameter up to 40 meters. This heating of the artificial park and will use environmentally friendly heating system.
In summer, when heating is not required, the heating system comprises the injection of hot water on the roof of the building where the heat will be given to the atmosphere.
Pumping station for pumping water from the Westin Building a campus Amazon. i> sup>
From the standpoint of economic efficiency of this project it looks quite attractive. Data Center Westin Building consists of 34 floors of server hardware and manages Internet traffic of all the north-west Pacific coast of the United States. Water pumped data center to heat the building Amazon, allow annual savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and for the next 25 years will thus be received 80 million kWh of thermal energy.
For other examples of this application of heat data centers, but on a smaller scale, you can read here .
Source: geektimes.ru/post/265750/
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