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The Beginning Artificial Intelligence (AI) Demand for data centers, which emit large amounts of heat, is on the rise, one example of which is the use of excess heat from the Paris Summer Olympics.
A data center owned by US tech giant Equinix is using excess heat generated by the facility’s many servers to help keep a nearby swimming pool warm. Paris Olympic Aquatics Center Be friendly towards your competitors.
AI data centers consume large amounts of energy to power vast numbers of servers whose data is used to train the large-scale language models (LLMs) that inform AI applications like ChatGPT. Cooling these servers, which can heat up to over 80 degrees Fahrenheit, is done using fans and liquid cooling systems.
The Equinix data center, called PA10, will open in 2023 on the company’s campus in Saint-Denis, France, and is designed for high-density server configurations that can train AI models and take advantage of the company’s thermal exporting technology.
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The pool at the Olympic Aquatics Center in Paris is partly heated by excess heat emitted by an AI data center. (Maddy Meyer/Getty Images/Getty Images)
company He told Wired The company expects the building will generate 6.6 megawatts of heat when fully operational — enough to heat more than 1,000 homes.
To heat the pool at the Olympic Aquatics Center, Equinix worked with French utility company Engie to Dissipate excess heat The electricity produced by the data centre is fed into Engie’s energy system.
From there, the heat Swimming Center It will heat the swimming pool there and provide heat to about 600 nearby homes and nearby businesses.
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| Equix | Equinix, Inc. | 809.48 | +29.19 |
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The setup is also beneficial for Equinix, as the excess heat can be dumped, reducing the energy needed to run its massive cooling systems. Equinix has also built greenhouses on the roofs of its data centers to grow strawberries, tomatoes, and other plants using the heat emitted by the facilities.
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A view of a server room at Equinix’s PA10 data center in Paris. (Fox News)
Noah Nkonge, head of heat exports at Equinix, said in a post on the company’s website that PA10 Paris Data Center “Excess heat will be transferred free of charge for 15 years to the surrounding area and to the Plaine Saulnier urban development area, which includes the Olympic swimming pool.”
Equinix has been using heat export technology for more than a decade, launching the world’s first heat export project at its Helsinki facility in 2010 to help heat nearby homes.
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A look inside Equinix’s PA10 data center in Paris. (Equinix/Fox News)
The company also has a heat export project set up on-site. Toronto It will provide hot water to several buildings and heat to homes as well as hotels, hospitals and shopping centres.
Nkonge wrote that Equinix is designing all future colocation data centers to have heat export and recovery capabilities, and is exploring new opportunities to expand its heat export program to other cities and countries.
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