Climate Crisis: Are we doing enough?

[Pblakeney]

Are you serious right now?

Yes. I was presuming that you weren't but I was playing along.
"The government’s Heat and Buildings Strategy highlights their potential role in decarbonising the UK’s heating systems, with a target of meeting 18% of UK heating needs by 2050.
Data centres, with their consistent heat output of 30°C to 35°C, are well-suited to support this transition."

 

[First Aspect]

If you do away with cooling systems, you do away with their inefficiencies. There is also no incompatibility between locating the data centres in a cooler climate to reduce cooling needs, and using whatever excess heat is expelled.

Put another way, would you think it more or less energy efficient to locate a data centre in Las Vegas, or Á?

 

[Ian H]

If you do away with cooling systems, you do away with their inefficiencies. There is also no incompatibility between locating the data centres in a cooler climate to reduce cooling needs, and using whatever excess heat is expelled.

Put another way, would you think it more or less energy efficient to locate a data centre in Las Vegas, or Á?

I imagine that, the more remote the data centre is from any civilisation, the more tricky it would be to utilise the heat produced.

 

[Pblakeney]

If you do away with cooling systems, you do away with their inefficiencies. There is also no incompatibility between locating the data centres in a cooler climate to reduce cooling needs, and using whatever excess heat is expelled.

Put another way, would you think it more or less energy efficient to locate a data centre in Las Vegas, or Á?

Tricky. Where is Á?

 

[First Aspect]

Tricky. Where is Á?

Lofoten Islands.

 

[Pblakeney]

Lofoten Islands.

Ah!
I would have picked Longyearbyen.