Nerdalize

2017: Heating of water in houses by means of servers

In June, 2017 the Dutch company Nerdalize announced the project on installation of servers in houses for water heating. Thanks to it both families, and owners of data centers will be the winner.

Assignment of heat which is developed by servers is a problem for operators of DPCs: about 40% of the consumed energy are spent for cooling of the equipment.

The Dutch startup of Nerdalize will help to heat water in the house by means of the server

Normal methods of heat extraction are very expensive, and most often the companies pay the attention to areas with a low annual average ambient air temperature. Nerdalize suggests to place the server hardware in private houses so that they heated water.

According to authors of the idea, it will help a household to cut down annual expenses on hot water on 300 euros, and to operators of data centers — to reduce costs for placement of the equipment half. Besides, simultaneous use of energy for operation of servers and heating of water will promote reduction of volume of emissions of a carbon dioxide gas by three tons per year counting on one household.

By June, 2017 Nerdalize held testing of the project in several houses. In August, 2017 the servers used for heating of water will be used in 42 houses. The number of persons interested to join an experiment exceeded 3500 people, noted in the company.

For the purpose of expansion of the project the startup started a crowdfunding campaign within which by June, 2017 it was succeeded to collect about 320 thousand euros at minimum necessary amount of 250 thousand euros.

Earlier the German company Cloud & Heat suggested to use heat developed by servers, but its offer differed in the fact that it was necessary to pay about $15 thousand whereas in the Nerdalize project residents receive heating free of charge for installation of one server.

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