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Mini data centers in pools: the sustainable strategy that kills two birds with one shot

Pools spend a lot of money on water heaters.

The solution saves both energy and money.

In order for everything we do on the internet to be recorded, we need the information to be stored somewhere, and that site is the data centers. The main problem these centers have is that they produce a lot of heat while they work and to prevent breakdowns, they require different ways to cool them down, today we have just learned the latest strategy for this, which is the most sustainable and beneficial so far.

Data centers constantly collect, analyze and produce information for any digital product, whether a service, platform or app to work properly. For this, they consume a lot of electricity, which then results in heat once they expel and consume the energy and if they do not regulate their temperature, these centers can overheat and break.

This has made all data centers have cooling equipment, either with fans or because they're brought to cool places. The problem with this is that centers no longer only consume a lot of electricity when they're running, but also consume energy when it comes to refrigerating, making it a very unsustainable and expensive practice.

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Nevertheless, the British start up Deep Green has found a greener solution than there are today, but the best thing is that it not only benefits the company that manages the data, but now also favors the roofed public pools in the UK.

And it's that one of the major problems with these roofed pools is that they need to keep the water at a warm temperature to make it desirable to bathe. This means an investment of thousands of euros in heating and other appliances that are not at all profitable for public institutions, and so Deep Green’s idea can be very successful.

The plan of this start up is to put tiny data into the same sports centers where the public pools are, so that the heat released by these equipment is transferred to an exchanger that serves to heat the water.

According to BBC data, since 2019 more than 65 public pools have closed because of the huge increase in energy costs, in turn, one of the highest costs that these data centers have is to get rid of the heat they release.

And so, putting together two burning problems, it's like Deep Green is getting two birds shot by using the heat that these centers release to warm up the water in the pools. There are already up to seven sports clubs applying this method and everything seems to indicate that it is a huge saving on both energy and money.

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