A startup has unveiled a UK-first solution to soaring energy bills: data centre heat.
The company, calledDeep Green, installs tiny clouddatacentres at local businesses.
The system then turns heat from the servers into hot water for the host site.
Deep Green provides the equipment free of charge and refunds the electricity costs.
As a result, the client can cut their carbon emissions and energy bills.
The digital boilers are now coming to public swimming pools, which are struggling with surging energy costs.
Across Britain, 85 pools have closed since 2019,the Guardian revealedlast week.
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Seven other pools in England have also signed up for the scheme.
The output is then processed through a heat exchanger and into the water.
The temperature is only topped up when required.
Deep Greens tech is unusual, but its far from the first company to recycle data centre heat.
The project, however, relies on extensive public infrastructure.
The data centres will connect to a 900km web link of underground pipes to reach users in the region.
Deep Green applies a very different approach.
Just dont tell the crypto bros or your local pool may soon host a Bitcoin mining rig.
Story byThomas Macaulay
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He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers.
Away from work, he enjoys playing chess (badly) and the guitar (even worse).
