Microsoft has partnered with Fortum, a Finnish energy company to heat homes, services and businesses in Finland with sustainable waste heat from a new datacentre region that Microsoft has planned to build in the Helsinki metropolitan area in Finland.
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The software giant claims the waste heat recycling concept from the datacentre region to be the world’s largest scheme to recycle waste heat from data centres. The joint project takes place at the intersection of two megatrends: digitalisation and energy transition.
How will this work? Fortum will capture the excess heat generated by the new datacentre region and transfer the clean heat from the server cooling process to homes, services and business premises that are connected to the district heating system.
What is a datacentre?
A datacentre is a physical facility that organisations use to store their critical applications and data, process data and disseminate them to users.
The temperatures recorded in the hot aisles of a datacentre hover between 80 and 115 degrees Fahrenheit.
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