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Nick Remington and Dawid Kropiwnicki recently shared insights with Data Centre Review on using waste heat in data centres to improve power usage effectiveness (PUE). Their study highlights how repurposing waste heat for local district heating networks can help meet European Energy Efficiency Directive PUE targets, achieving more sustainable infrastructure solutions.   Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dizx_WEJ   #datacentres #PUE #energyefficiency #datacentredesign #engineeringdesign

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Khorshed Alam

Principal Mechanical Engineer

2mo

Great article, one point that stood out to me is the suggestion that PUE doesn’t account for waste heat. While that’s true in the strictest sense, exporting waste heat inherently lowers chiller energy consumption, which does indirectly reflect in PUE as reduced facility energy, if modelled in the PUE calculation which admittedly quite tricky to forecast/estimate. the industry already has a dedicated metric, energy reuse effectiveness, designed to capture the value of reused energy like exported waste heat. DCs need to promote ERE alongside PUE to give a more holistic view of sustainability and energy efficiency in data centers.

Cihan Hergüner, DCP

Director, EMEALA Colocation Segment at Johnson Controls

3mo

Nice one Nick Remington!

Elie Pascal IBRAHIM

Co-Founder / General Manager at Barbanel middle East sal

3mo

Even if it’s a well known subject It’s good to point out this subject to be used in DC when possible (next to a district heating network) Bravo Dawid

Vladimir Divac

MSc CEng MCIBSE MASHRAE ATD

3mo

Thanks Dawid and Nick for these valuable insights 👍🏻

Trung Pham

Colocation Field Engineer at Amazon Web Services

3mo

Nice one mate Dawid Kropiwnicki 👍

Pawan Kumar

Principal Engineer-Mechanical-MEP I LEED AP BD+C l WELL AP I Carbon Assessment - One Click LCA l Project Management

3mo

This article is incredibly insightful!

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